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...surrounded by a claque of admirers, an entourage of curious and often comical characters. He is gratified by his friendships with the famous and the powerful, and in his office in New York City there are prominently displayed pictures of himself with Ronald Reagan, Henry Kissinger and Pope Paul VI. At Christmas in Marbella, a gaggle of lesser European royalty partook of "A.K.'s" hospitality. Among them was Count Jaime de Mora y Aragon, the brother of the Queen of Belgium, a rakish fellow with a monocle and a waxed mustache who comes across as a blue-blooded Salvador Dali...
...ordered world. We know it really isn't real, and we can master it. It's fantasy, and we can get out." It is no wonder then that videocassettes like I Dismember Mama and Halloween are favorites on the rental circuit, that Aliens and Friday the 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives were among the top movie grossers of the summer, and that, in paperback, Stephen King now outsells James Michener and Robert Ludlum...
...founder's battle cry did not always ring well in the 1960s and '70s. Popes John XXIII and Paul VI were building bridges toward Marxists and atheists, a policy that still attracts some of Italy's bishops. Many of them -- including Milan's influential Jesuit Archbishop Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini -- are dismayed by C.L.'s independent spirit and its insistence that a true Christian can have only one political and social outlook, a fault they label "integralism." Retorts C.L. Member Ronza: "We don't want to impose our Christian ideals on anyone, but we want an equal hearing...
...Europe was on the brink of political disaster. In England, the year began with the death of much-beloved King George VI and ended with a crisis of leadership surrounding the eventual abdication of the playboy Prince of Wales Edward VII. France was paralyzed by a kind of national paranoic fear that money-grubbing businessmen were controlling the country to the detriment of the average working class and petit bourgeois citizen...
When his sister, Princess Anne, was born,Charles' life became more regimented and lesspublic. He spent more time in the palace, living asheltered life. Everyday the Prince saw hismother, who insisted on bathing her two children.But after King George VI died in February 1952,Charles saw his mother less and less as she turnedher attentions to being Queen...