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...Englishman's truly distinctive disease is his cherished habit of waiting until the 13th hour," wrote British Historian Arnold Toynbee last November. Events have since proved him right. It took a serious pound scare and a disastrous inflation rate of 26% to prod Britain's Labor government into coming up with what Prime Minister Harold Wilson called "a plan to save our country" from a "general economic catastrophe of incalculable proportions" (TIME, July 21). Last Tuesday, after two days of passionate, often bitter debate, the House of Commons approved the government's emergency package by a vote...
FRED AND I rolled out of York, Pa, on Friday the 13th. Fred's van, Irene--his grandmother had just given it to him--sure looked sweet. With only 493 miles on her she was still practically a virgin, but driving to Ketchum Sun Valley, Idaho would open her up some--about 2400 miles passed between her well-tempered hubs before we called our trip quits. But that wasn't til Tuesday morning when all was grey and cold and clammy and out rotting elk head lashed to the front of the van stunk of urine and flung...
...code, partly because assassinating rival monarchs inevitably invited retaliation. In the Italian city states of the Renaissance, of course, the Medicis, Viscontis and Sforzas practiced murder against rivals in politics, love or family quarrels with satanic ardor. The first and possibly the worst was Ezzel-ino da Romano, the 13th century despot of Padua and Verona. "Here for the first time," wrote Historian Jacob Burckhardt, "the attempt was openly made to found a throne by wholesale murder and endless barbarities." Pope Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), with his children Cesare and Lucrezia, used assassination for political ends when they eliminated...
...scene is the board room of the United States Steel Corp. in Pittsburgh, Pa., a few years ago. Seated at the table that usually accommodates the directors of the nation's 13th-largest corporation are four or five Harvard alumni. Seated way down at the other end is a high school senior, seeking admission to the College, about to begin his interview, a half-hour question-and-answer session that would leave almost any applicant a bit shaken...
...gents with faces like silver teapots, who have striven to give art the primary function of bullion. The present epidemic of art theft is ultimately their responsibility. In one day last week, in one Italian district-the Abruzzi-thieves made off with a 12th century Madonna and Child, a 13th century reclining Madonna and a 14th century silver reliquary attributed to Giacomo di Sulmona. In the whole week more than 180 works of art were stolen in Italy; an average of 27 a day, one every six hours from churches in Tuscany alone. One may safely bet that...