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...Foreign Office from Selwyn Lloyd in 1960, few Britons knew his name, and even fewer could pronounce it correctly. Most critics were angered by the fact that the Foreign Secretary would sit in the Lords, sheltered from the heavy fire of Commons debate. His decision was called "the most reckless appointment since the Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul...
...Back Again at Zima Junction (Ev-tushenko's Siberian birthplace, which he recently revisited), Evtushenko concedes he was "unhorsed, honor nowhere near me" when he returned to Moscow from his reckless visit to Western Eu rope last winter. With a nod to the Kremlin, he admits: The "sharp criticism was useful in the final analysis." But then he adds acidly...
...Anniston, Ala. Star, which had bridled last year at the violence with which the city met the first Freedom Riders, convicted Wallace of "reckless asininity." But even normally sympathetic papers found the Governor more than they could stomach. "George Wallace is not 'saving Alabama,' " said the Birmingham News, a militantly segregationist daily. "He is in the process of destroying self-government and the educational system of this state...
...stormy Von Horn, first U.N. chief in the Congo and for five years head of the U.N.'s Palestine peace-keeping force, suddenly resigned in a cable to Thant, charging lack of sufficient logistic support, aircraft and even rations. Thant branded Von Horn's charges "irresponsible and reckless," announced last week that the mission would continue, thanks to "oral assurances" by Egypt and Saudi Arabia that they would continue splitting the bill ($200,000 per month) for another two months...
...Monza, by Mario Mazzucchelli. Based on archives opened six years ago in Milan, this book retells a lurid story that shocked 17th century Italy. It takes 14 years of solitary penitence before Sister Virginia of Monza is finally forgiven for her passionate, protracted love affair with a reckless nobleman...