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...major target of the criticism is Queen Mother Frederika, who is blamed by the leftists?and by many others???for practically any action of the King's that they do not like. A tough, strong-willed woman who hotly defends royalty's every prerogative, she lives in retirement in a small villa at Psychiko outside Athens, frequently sees the King and his wife. Last winter, the criticism of the Queen Mother became so strong that in December the government introduced a special law in Parliament extending the lese majesty protection to all members of the royal family, including Frederika...
Sometimes she plunges into little things. One day not long ago, quite unwittingly, she scheduled six separate appointments for 2 p.m., broke all of them, scheduled three others???and then forgot she had any at all. "It is necessary," sighs her secretary, "to keep one's appointment calendar in pencil." Sometimes she plunges into big things. For a while, the big thing was pacifism. In 1961, she plunged militantly into Britain's ban-the-bomb movement, was arrested four times during demonstrations, stood up before a rally in Castro-style battle dress and sang a Cuban revolutionary song. Sometimes Vanessa...
Religious Elements. Ultimately, the individual can see himself only in the eyes of others???and can see himself great or free only in the reflection of the eye of God. All past attempts to assert the worth of the individual without measuring him against a higher cause have failed, have in the end only diminished him. Nietzsche's rhapsodic worship of man's will, of which Hitler was an absurd and gruesome caricature, fits no more into the true Western tradition than does the soul's meek expectation of nirvana or the patient Russian submission to worldly tyranny...
...most costly to run ($310,777,000). It holds the economic heart of the nation. Its citizens pay one-third of the total Federal income tax. Three of its 44 Governors?Van Buren, Cleveland, Roosevelt?have proceeded to the nation's No. 1 job. Four others???Seymour, Tilden, Hughes, Smith?ran for the Presidency...
...line first in 19 minutes and 55 seconds. The men in it, leaning on their oars in the calm twilight, saw Cornell stroked by Bob Wilson whose boat won in 1930, sweep across the line second by 2½ lengths. Washington was third with Navy fourth. Syracuse fifth and the others??? Columbia, Penn, and M. I. T.?strung out far behind along the river...