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Next day, for the first time since 1814, the House formally recorded its admiration and gratitude for one man. The resolution was moved by the Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and was followed by brief tributes by Liberal Jo Grimond, arch-Conservative Sir Thomas Moore, Labor's Harold Wilson and Emanuel Shinwell...
Last week he was at Seattle University, wreathed in a cloud of Salem smoke, sitting at a desk littered with matchbooks, letters and Agatha Christie novels. He would rather have been in Southern California. But the arch-conservative Archbishop of Los Angeles, James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, banned the liberal Roberts from lecturing there. Roberts took it philosophically: "Cardinal Mclntyre is in charge and is entitled to his own views as to what is expedient and what...
...substantial section of it will be set aside for an expressway to link downtown with the major expressways leading out of the city. The long neglected riverfront has been cleared for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park; scheduled for completion there next year is a soaring stainless-steel arch 630 ft. high, designed by the late Eero Saarinen as a monument to St. Louis as Gateway to the West. A seven-block pedestrian mall shaded by trees and flanked by lawns is abuilding. Ground has been broken for a 1,100-car parking garage, first step in construction...
...week the improvement was highlighted by the opening of the first industrial fair in Egypt's history. On an island in the Nile, smack in the middle of Cairo, 800 Egyptian firms spread their wares over a 120-acre site behind an entrance framed by a huge arabesque arch...
Still, one can easily see why the main role has attracted so many players. (Kean, the foremost 19th-century Richard, started work on it at 13.) It is a "star" vehicle for virtuosity. Richard is not only an arch-villain; he is also a consummate actor himself, with an instinct for histrionics and theatricality. Like Iago (for which he served as a preliminary study), Richard takes as much delight in the efficacy of his acting techniques as in the evil deeds he commits (which include eleven murders...