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With Great Power. Now the halls of Government are overrun by a press corps that has been described by one of its own as "the greatest concentration of self-adoration and misplaced vanity on earth." There are more journalists (1,361) in the nation's capital than there are Congressmen. The big bureaus of the Associated Press and United Press International send upwards of 70,000 words a day out of Washington; Scotty Reston's New York Times bureau sends about half that much, including the official transcripts of conferences and speeches that are fodder...
...Kailern family mansion (the former palace of an archbishop) is overrun by a plague of sponging Croatian relatives; Milli's gentle father fitfully writes his futile memoirs; her dashing brother Karli spends his nights gambling, his days wooing nouveau riche heiresses. Milli drifts moodily through her days, hears people talking about a man named (she thinks) Albert Hitler, beats her head against the prison walls of faded gentility, and makes vague, hopelessly unrealistic plans to work in a hotel or a tourist agency. Rescue finally comes when an aunt who has married a U.S. millionaire sweeps into Vienna, vaguely...
...Bums. Each weekend the Schaeffers are overrun by a crowd of young men and women mostly from the universities-painters, writers, actors, singers, dancers and beatniks-professing every shade of belief and disbelief. There are existentialists and Catholics, Protestants, Jews and left-wing atheists; the 20-odd guests this week include an Oxford don, an engineer from El Salvador, a ballet dancer and an opera singer. The one thing they have in common is that they are intellectuals. And the European intellectual is the single object of the Schaeffers' mission in the mountains...
More Than Personal. To prepare for the confrontation with his tough, clever cold-war adversary, Eisenhower flew to Europe in late August, there to consult and coordinate plans with U.S. allies. In Germany, the land overrun by his Allied armies, in England, the country from which he had launched his vast command upon Europe, and in Paris, the city he had liberated, the swell of popular emotion brought a mist to an old soldier's eyes. The tribute was more than personal. When Ike left Europe, he knew that it was in his capacity as the President...
...patiently explained: "My people do not know how to fight; they only know how to sing and make love." Later he proved equally uncooperative with the invading Japanese, and French commandos had to parachute in to rescue him. Finally, in 1953, when the Viet Minh threatened to overrun the gold-spired royal capital of Luangprabang, the King flatly refused to flee. "This is my country and my palace," he said, "and I am too old to tremble." Then he went calmly...