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James Schlesinger was back in a little office last week, stuffing his pipe full of Sir Walter Raleigh, quoting Heraclitus ("Character is destiny"), pondering his singular journey through the high corridors of power and his sudden descent. He had for the moment somewhat the look of a trapped creature, with the low ceiling of the office at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies pressing down...
...INFLUENCE OF Wizard on generations of pinball machines to come can only be guessed at; suffice it to say, it will be vast. For now, all one can do is hail, as Samuel Beckett hailed with unfathomed prescience more than twenty-five years ago, the "system, of singular beauty and simplicity, which consists in saying Bally...
...cardinals, 80 bishops, 700 priests, 1,300 nuns and thousands of other Americans on charter tours descended on Rome last week for a singular event in Catholic history. Over the centuries, their church had designated thousands of saints, including 22 from Uganda, 20 from Japan, and 40 from England, but never had a native-born citizen of the U.S. been canonized.* Now the church was to remedy that as Pope Paul VI infallibly proclaimed Mother Elizabeth Seton (TIME, Dec. 23) a saint who should be venerated "in the company of saints with pious devotion...
...later broadcast the first announcement of the revolt over Nigerian radio, denied all. Nonetheless, Gowon reportedly told him: "If you are plotting, let it be on your conscience and let it be without bloodshed. I must go to Kampala anyway." Whether apocryphal or not, the story reflected the singular lack of personal ambition that had marked Gowon's leadership since power was virtually thrust upon him nine years ago. It also reflected the diffident style of leadership that had thwarted his attempts to deal with an interlocking set of crises...
...Kennedy -authorized or condoned foul plots by the CIA to do in several foreign leaders. Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho, who heads the Senate investigating committee, has claimed to have "hard evidence" of the agency's complicity but nothing that would implicate any President. Still, in the singular relationship of the agency to presidential authority, evidence of a CIA assassination plot would seem to implicate one President or the other, even both, unless, of course, the CIA had become a law unto itself. What the Rockefeller commission report revealed was "in all likelihood just...