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...most widespread objection to these emissaries of the Pope is that they frequently enjoy far more influence in Rome than do local cardinal-archbishops who outrank them. In recent years, complaints have multiplied that Rome's diplomats meddle too much in the internal affairs of the church in the countries where they are stationed. Extremely liberal Catholic clergy in The Netherlands, for example, have protested that Giuseppe Beltrami, who was internuncio there until he was recently named a cardinal, "kept the wires to Rome hot with reports of heresy in Holland"-not always without justification...
...strictly military exploits. John Paul Jones and Farragut rise from the history books as authors of heroic slogans, but hardly as full-fledged heroes. Besides, there is a strong prejudice in favor of the gallant loser and the persistent defender of a lost cause. Lee and Stonewall Jackson outrank Ulysses S. Grant. World War I produced no military heroes unless it was Sergeant York, a man of peace reacting to pressure. World War II and after showed a growing sophistication in American taste in war heroes. The dashing George Patton was ranked well behind the judicious men of wide responsibility...
...last week the word at ABC was money-lots of it. After a year of dickering, the International Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1964 sales: $1.5 billion) agreed to acquire ABC in a move that, if it goes through as expected, will produce a new electronics-entertainment colossus. The combination would outrank Radio Corp. of America (1964 sales: $1.8 billion) and its NBC subsidiary, leave CBS as the only major network without a big corporate shelter...
...this sensitive evocation of adolescence, which its author considers her best verse, Phyllis McGinley's daughter Julie was the model. The McGinley muse, albeit a distant traveler, alights most often on the ordinary landscapes of motherhood and domesticity-the only two professions that consistently outrank the poet. Since the 1930s, Housewife Hayden has been singing the substantial pleasures of the hearth, and contentedly reminding herself...
...will have open declared opposition as soon as peacetime allows." The trouble is that Diem rules not so much by firmness as by confusion; deliberate disorganization is his way of keeping possible enemies off balance. Cabinet ministers are undercut by a system of "superior subordinates." who actually outrank their nominal bosses because they get orders direct from the palace. But there is serious doubt whether any of this would change after a coup...