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Steppingstone. The patrician Russell became increasingly a loner. After his unsuccessful bid for the presidency, he refused the leadership of his party in the Senate. Instead he pressed for the selection of Lyndon B. Johnson. Russell never married-he had been too busy with politics, he explained-and he usually avoided capital parties, staying in his Washington apartment reading history or the Congressional Record. "I came up here with a country-boy idea that you had to be polite and attend every party you were invited to," he would say. "That liked to killed me the first year...
...walls of the tiny study in his modest home in Santiago's patrician Providencia district, Dr. Salvador Allende has hung the pictures of his revolutionary heroes. There, last week, surrounded by photographs of Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara-as well as one of Eleanor Roosevelt-Allende talked with TIME Correspondent David...
...that is not the book's nature or function. It is the poet's mind, not his work, that is on display. Auden's mind, seen through his reading, shows exceptionally broad learning and intellectual tolerance. The man is also quirky, traditionalist and playful with a patrician fondness for the recondite-whether in the lore of language or nature. His compilation belies the term "commonplace" with properly Audenesque irony...
...I.O.S. and provide just that. Last week, in the Paris headquarters of the French Rothschilds, Guy de Rothschild chaired a secret meeting of European and U.S. bankers to hammer out a proposal for taking over I.O.S. Rothschild's interest was more than the noblesse oblige of a patrician banker. His Banque Rothschild was an underwriter of I.O.S.'s $54 million stock issue last fall, and the Rothschild reputation for astuteness has not been helped by the stock's decline from $10 at the offering to $2.50 last week...
Almost overnight, "hardhats" became synonymous with white working-class conservatives, already familiar among George Wallace's 1968 supporters. Much of the hardhats' anger was aimed at Mayor John Lindsay, the object of bitter blue-collar scorn during his re-election campaign last year because of his patrician style and his seeming over-friendliness to blacks. Some of the new outrage against Lindsay arose because he had managed to have the city hall flag lowered in honor of the Kent State dead...