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...Soviet Union, however, Woodrow Wilson's conviction that "opinion ultimately governs the world" remains eminently debatable. Though it helped to stay the firing squads in Burgos and Leningrad, that fact holds scant comfort for the 26 convicted dissidents, who still face long and harsh years of imprisonment despite their year-end rescue from execution...
With the instinct of a buoyant Irish priest, Moynihan decided to part on an inspirational note. He rose in the White House to speak at a year-end meeting of Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officers, and when he had finished some of the assembled Nixon men were wiping away tears as they stood to applaud...
From one point of view, the Christmas season adds up to a great big popularity contest: who gets the most Christmas cards, the most invitations, the most presents-and the most votes in the inevitable year-end polls. In one of the more obscure surveys, U.S. newspaper editors picked the man who they thought was the most admired in history. The winner was Jesus Christ (280 votes). Runners-up: Winston Churchill (175), Abraham Lincoln (151), Thomas Jefferson (72), George Washington (66). Also-rans: Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Mahatma Gandhi, William Shakespeare, Albert Schweitzer. Visitors to Madame Tussaud's waxworks...
Only a standard cover with a picture of a beautiful woman identifies the magazine as the latest Paris Vogue. Inside, things are far from standard. In an effort to increase circulation and dress up its Christmas issue, Paris Vogue has twice chosen a guest editor for its year-end edition. Last year she was Françoise Sagan, who limited her tasks to writing only a couple of pages. This year the choice was Actress Jeanne Moreau, who does nothing halfheartedly...
...heart of the dispute are Pergamon's profits. Under the accounting formula used by Maxwell, Pergamon had 1968 pretax profits of $5.04 million. But a special audit by Price Waterhouse, published two weeks ago, placed 1968 profits at only $1.2 million and Pergamon's year-end assets at $10.8 million rather than the $16.9 million originally reported...