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...columnists, one solemn, one satirical, offered the State Department some policy advice last week that was strangely similar. On his annual CBS-TV interview, Walter Lippmann proposed his solution for attacks on U.S. installations abroad: "I think what we ought to do in a place like Cairo, if they burned down our library, is leave it burned down. Just leave it there. Don't rebuild it, don't clean the street even, and let it stand there as a monument to the thing. I think they'll soon want to clean it up themselves...
Once Roman Catholic cardinals, upon elevation to the title, humbly kissed the Pope's foot and afterwards lay prostrate before an altar while solemn prayers were said for them. Last week, when Paul VI presented 27 clerics with their red hats,* they swore their fealty standing up. The creation of a cardinal is still one of the world's most imposing religious ceremonies, but in the spirit of the Catholic aggiornamento Paul has made some measured simplifications...
That evening, chauffeured black Cadillac limousines came in steady, solemn procession to the west entrance of the White House for an urgent meeting of the National Security Council. In the Cabinet Room, Johnson let the NSC know that the only question was not whether to retaliate, but where. "The worst thing we could possibly do," said the President, "would be to let this go by. It would be a big mistake. It would open the door to a major misunderstanding." He continued: "I want three things: I want a joint attack [including Vietnamese as well as U.S. planes]. I want...
Bequeathed by the British, Ghana's judicial system displays all the solemn trappings of the Old Bailey, complete with decorous courtrooms and gowned-and-wigged judges. Far higher than the law of the land is Osagyefo (Redeemer) and President Kwame Nkrumah...
...itself. Beginning immediately, said Giscard, France will settle all its foreign deficits by paying in gold-a fairly painless move in view of the fact that France has no deficits. More ominously for the U.S. and Britain, he called on the West's major nations to make "a solemn and unequivocal declaration" that from now on they too would settle their deficits in gold instead of in dollars or pounds-an open invitation to everyone to trade in dollars and pounds for gold...