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...playwright, who had written one historical tetralogy (the three Henry VI plays and Richard III), was here embarking on another, which would continue with 1 and 2 Henry IV and Henry V. Although it lacks the artistic unity of, say, Wagner's Ring tetralogy, it does among other things constitute a corporate course in the true art of monarchical government. In Richard II Shakespeare shows us a properly titled divine-right king who lacks the qualities of leadership. In the pair of Henry IV plays we see a gifted leader plagued by his lack of legitimate title. Finally, in Henry...
...sweep that exceeded even the most optimistic Gaullist forecasts, the voters rallied to the party of Charle de Gaulle and his allies. Gaullist and Gaullist-lining forces won 43.7% of 22.5 million votes v. 37.7% in last year's National Assembly elections. In the first round of voting, their candidates won outright majorities in 142 constituencies and thus were elected to the Assembly without having to undergo a runoff round. By contrast, the major non-Gaullist parties all suffered setbacks. Receiving its worst drubbing in a decade, the French Left lost 1,250,000 votes to the Gaullists, watched...
...solutions the mice of secular liberalism." The problem with liberalism, explained L. Brent Bozell, editor of the Catholic monthly Triumph (and brother-in-law of William Buckley), is its view of a world in which man is self-sufficient. "It is a question of a man-oriented order v. a God-oriented order," said Bozell. "Adam was the first liberal and the symbol of the liberal"-meaning that from the moment he touched the apple, Adam, like many a modern-day renewalist, was trying to take the world into his own hands...
Died. Russell V. Downing, 67, president and director from 1952-66 of New York's Radio City Music Hall, world's largest indoor movie theater (6,200 seats); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the 36 years of its existence, Downing was proud to point out, the Music Hall not only kept to the "family movie" formula, but attracted more than 200 million paying customers at a rate of 6,000,000 a year-more than the annual number of visitors to the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and United Nations combined...
Both business and Government rely more and more on computers to predict future needs. It is therefore ironic that the computer industry itself vastly underestimated the demands for its products (44,400 computers are at work today, v. a 1954 estimate that 50 would be). Computer makers are now a chronic 25% behind partly because they cannot stock an inventory, partly because they have underestimated the demand for their own product. There are classic examples of underestimation in many other important areas...