Word: nero
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...ponder mathematics, he lived in a strange Paris apartment that consisted of three rooms on three floors. The legends about him spread: that he hypnotized those he was questioning by spinning a small silver spoon as he talked, that the 110-lb. German police dog at his side named Nero had once guarded Germany's Hermann Göring. One morning last December, France awoke to surprising news: without a word of explanation, Premier Charles de Gaulle had fired Wybot as chief of the D.S.T. and banished him to a dusty office as inspector of police schools...
...evokes little student excitement; few undergraduates understand the ideological foundations of Western Civilization; few find purpose or direction. Williams maintains that American colleges have not changed their attitudes or methods in at least the last forty years, even though the world has experienced drastic changes. He justifiably asks: "If Nero became infamous for fiddling while Rome burned, what will be the future reputation of the modern college professor...
...himself as well as on his subordinates. Arising punctually at 7:30, he breakfasts on coffee and croissants with Madame de Gaulle, then plunges into a detailed summary of the French and foreign press. At 9 he enters his office (which is decorated with busts of Caesar and Nero) for a conference with his personal staff, headed by 47-year-old Georges Pompidou, onetime executive of the Rothschild bank. The day planned, De Gaulle spends from two to three hours receiving visitors. Contrary to their original expectations, De Gaulle treats his own Cabinet ministers with old-fashioned courtesy, listens carefully...
Formidable as may be the new Pope's problems, they shrink somewhat when measured against past challenges to the papacy-an institution that spans Christian history from persecution under Nero to persecution under Khrushchev, has dealt with inimical philosophies from stoicism to existentialism, has survived dangers from its own corruption during the Renaissance to physical attack during the Italian Risorgimento. Whatever threats Christianity will face under Pope John's reign will not necessarily be greater than the invasion of the Lombards from whom Gregory the Great (590-604) saved Rome. Whatever tests await Pope John's diplomacy...
When Emperor Nero received a shipment of mountain snow for his royal ice cream in a state of slush, he executed the general in charge. When Baltimore Milkman Jacob Fussell first began mass-producing the ancient delicacy in 1851, he started a U.S. industry that today leads all the world. But though Americans down about 3 billion quarts of ice cream annually, the U.S. Government-unlike Nero-has never had any control over the quality of the industry's product. Last week the Food and Drug Administration finally issued a code to regulate everything from quality "French...