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...jewel robbers last year. She also padded around her apartment turning off lights, fretted mightily if a maid broke so much as a teacup, and carried her lunch to her office in a paper bag. Until the end, though, she kept a sharp eye on her business and a relentless devotion to her personal grooming. "It doesn't matter how shaky a woman's hand is," she insisted. "She can still apply eye makeup." At 94 Helena Rubinstein still...
Meanwhile the Assembly was being transformed into an entirely new kind of political body. When the U.N. was founded, it reflected an older world; only four African nations were represented. Now, with the relentless recessional of the colonial powers, new African nations began sprouting almost faster than they could be counted. The present roster of 114 members includes 36 Africans. From Tanzania and Zambia, from Malawi and Upper Volta, from places no one had heard of before, came men with gaudy robes, beaded headdresses, and Oxford or Sorbonne accents-most of them young and eager, all of them defensive...
...Princeton graduate (cum laude, '41), conventionally handsome, inwardly tense and outwardly relaxed, he was the boy wonder who stepped into his job five years ago and played the complex, competitive, split-timing game of network programming with such relentless drive and consummate skill that by last year eight of the top ten Nielsen-rated night shows bore CBS's eyeprint, as did all ten of the top daytime entries...
...Options. Against this complex enemy, what are the U.S. choices? Despite Charles de Gaulle's belief that the U.S. and China are a pair of rigid giants locked in relentless struggle, the actions available are both multiple and mutable...
Honored Pageant. There was a narrower time, and it lasted well into Churchill's own youth, when a great state occasion was one of the few events that brought spectacle into most people's lives. Today, in an age of relentless distractions, when spectacle shouts from countless posters, pages and screens, pageantry must compete for attention, and in this sense it is diminished. But it is also more affecting than ever when, as in Churchill's case, it goes so plainly beyond show and becomes an expression of continuity between a nation's past...