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...middle-class salary after a few years in uniform, but they also receive free on-base housing, medical care and PX privileges. An officer's uniform instantly confers middle-class status-or higher. Air Force Lieut. General Daniel James Jr., top-ranking black in the armed services, seldom wears his civvies. "If I have to go to a meeting," he says, "I just walk in and take my seat, and they know who I am and what I represent. There is less institutionalized racism in the service today than any place else." Blacks now make...
...Audiences and critics realized for the first time that they were in the presence of a diva of historical importance," wrote a New Yorker reviewer. "She tossed off all of Handel's difficult fioriture with exemplary intonation, faultless agility, and a warmth of tone that is seldom encountered in singers of her type...The production was a stunning...
...troubles," his line has had a one-track consistency: Ulster, he believes, faces a takeover by the Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland and this can be prevented only if Ulster's Protestants band together in political and military opposition to union. A soft-spoken lawyer whose voice seldom rises above a whisper, Craig last week talked with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter in his suburban Belfast home, which is still scarred by a recent terrorist bomb attack. The views of King Billy...
...moved to the Elysée, he brought his bulldozer into the Cabinet as Agriculture Minister and later Interior Minister. Several years ago, Chirac observed that the chief function of a Premier in France is to "take responsibility for everything that is a bit disagreeable and difficult." Chirac has seldom expressed a firm conviction on any issue; he seems less interested in political abstractions than in the technical exercise of sheer power...
...nowers. There are those who prepare their income taxes in February, prepay mortgages and serve precisely planned dinners at an ungodly 6:30 p.m. The other half dine happily on leftovers at 9 or 10, misplace bills and file for an extension of the income tax deadline. They seldom pay credit-card bills until the apocalyptic voice of Diners threatens doom from Denver. They postpone, as Faustian encounters, visits to barbershop, dentist or doctor...