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...teem with vignettes of squalor (two men playing a seesaw game over a fire for a prize of food) that make their own comment set against the distant pomp of the royal court. The musketeers move through both these worlds with equal ease, yet are part of neither. Their sworn allegiance is to the King, Louis XIII, and against Richelieu, but they are men of pride. Their greatest battle and concern are simply to stay alive. For though they would call themselves their own men, they belong to Louis-pawns like the pet dogs he uses for his life-size...
...glib talk this time of Labor's first hundred days, but Wilson set out to make his first hundred hours count. The first item on the agenda was to get the coal miners back to work- and back to work they went. Even before he was sworn in, Wilson's new Employment Secretary, Michael Foot, summoned officials of the National Union of Mineworkers and the government's National Pay Board. In a marathon twelve-hour bargaining session, they managed to hammer out an agreement that had eluded Heath's government for five months...
...Goals. The man in charge of the U.S. military response to the new Russian challenge is James Rodney Schlesinger, 45, who was sworn in as Secretary of Defense last July 2. By profession an economist and military strategist, the tall, pipe-smoking Schlesinger demonstrated deft and tough skills in administration and problem solving in his previous jobs as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (see box page 16). At the Pentagon, he has set two goals for himself: 1) to overcome the legacy of the Viet Nam War, which has left the services...
...Jerusalem, the sense of accommodation was equally evident. As a new Knesset was sworn in-with Premier Golda Meir* as its oldest member taking the oath first-the Labor-dominated government won easy approval (76-35) for the disengagement agreement. In addressing the Knesset, Mrs. Meir announced that Israel does not consider the eventual pullback line in the Sinai -to be reached 12 days after the west bank retirement is finished-as a permanent border. "It has been our position from the start," she said, "that the separation of forces is not the ultimate goal, for we are prepared...
Only hours after John Vliet Lindsay was sworn in as mayor of New York eight years ago, 33,000 transit workers walked off their jobs and brought the city dangerously close to paralysis. Lindsay's successor, 67-year-old Abraham Beame, the city's first Jewish mayor, has faced no comparable calamities since becoming the new tenant in Gracie Mansion. But his opening weeks have not been as smooth as cream cheese either. Having based his political reputation on a decades-long record of personal integrity, Beame pledged during his campaign "to make our administration a model...