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...come a model of excellence. "All the Ancients used to say that the Emperor should concern himself with general principles, but need not deal with the smaller details," he wrote. K'ang-hsi dis agreed: "Failure to attend to details will end up endangering your greater vir tues." It is still excellent advice, for pipe fitters as well as Presidents with an imperial bent...
...Melvin H. Evans, 56, of the Vir gin Islands, a former physician and a Republican who was appointed to of fice by President Nixon before winning the islands' first gubernatorial election...
...apartheid laws, the "non-Europeans" are constantly reminded of a permanent inferior status. They are forbidden to ride in white trains, buses or taxis, to use white public restrooms, attend white churches, send their children to white schools, even to sit on park benches bearing the insulting words Slegs vir blankes (For whites only). They may spend their money in white stores and invest in the stock market, but to mail a letter they must enter the post office through a separate door and buy their stamps at a separate window. "South Africa," says Laurence Gandar, editor in chief...
...their arrival; those locating elsewhere stopped over in "Freedom House" at Miami's International Airport, where barracks and mess halls were set up. Within 48 hours after their arrival, 54 of the first 75 refugees were on their way to Illinois, New York, California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, West Vir ginia, Virginia and Colorado. To start them off, the U.S. gave each refugee traveling alone and going beyond Miami a $60 grubstake, and each family...
...Staring disconsolately from nearly all of them is the vulnerable "ugly duckling" whose beautiful, indifferent mother died young and whose doting father provided meager solace to her. "He began drinking when she was quite small," Mrs. Cole recalls chattily. "Eventually he was sent off to a little town in Vir ginia." A painfully unpromising New York debutante, Eleanor became the bride of her cousin F.D.R. and seemed destined for a life of no particular distinction as a self-effacing wife, a frequent mother, a perfectly conventional matron of her day. The rush of great and terrible events in World...