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...Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy. Without sentiment or solemn artiness, the author describes the city that "invented" the Renaissance...
...book's superb photographs, such comments have the effect of giving entirely fresh life to tourist memories. The Stones of Florence is in the end a solid tribute to the city and its people past and present, an estimate achieved without the least sentimentality, and free of solemn artiness. Some readers may say that this is not the Florence they saw, but Author McCarthy saw it thus, and her city is in the book...
...mind. One of the 200 Jews who crowded the third-floor hall off Madrid's Gran Via explained: "We've waited 467 years for this day. A few more minutes won't hurt." At last the congregation, led by younger members bearing the Torah, began the solemn march, chanting the ancient Hebrew prayer: "Praised be the Lord, for He is good and His mercy endureth forever." Then the congregation president lit the "eternal light" (an electric bulb). Occasion: dedication of Madrid's first regular synagogue since 1492, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, urged...
...most precarious balancing act since the original Great Wallendas retired from the high wire-President Eisenhower's 1960 budget-is still gamely keeping its balance. Budget Director Maurice H. Stans reported last week. Said normally solemn Accountant Stans, fighting hard to smother a grin: during the half-year since the President presented his budget to Congress, the economy's energetic climb has added $1.9 billion to the Administration's income estimate for fiscal 1960 (ending next June). But over the same span, the outgo estimate has also crept upward by $1.9 billion, reaching $78.9 billion. Biggest reason...
Venturing forth early last week from Chequers, country residence of Britain's Prime Ministers, Tory Squire Harold Macmillan earnestly read the lesson (Joel 2: 15-16) at the Anglican parish church of Ellesborough. "Blow the trumpet in Zion," he intoned; "call a solemn assembly: gather the people." Barely 36 hours later, after a fast flight to Balmoral Castle in Scotland, Macmillan officially advised Queen Elizabeth that he planned to call a general election...