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...strong but careful and considering nonetheless. He is still liable to fear--but fear of things within, of his own doubts and all those teeming visions. Gullette handles his role in a way that suggests St. Peter exhibiting perfect control over his great rocky body--and especially those direct commander's hands--while the struggle of conscience and denial goes on beneath his bald pate. Then the crown covers that spot and all sign of the saint is gone. Fear itself takes over the command, but with no less skill or strength than made Macbeth a hero in suppressing...
...from the New York Times and Los Angeles Times that were filed from Rome to skirt the tough Israeli censors, Sharon charged that his superiors were not prepared for the war. The General amplified his accusations in yet another in- -terview with American University Professor Amos Perlmutter: "The Southern Command collapsed completely in the first two days," said Sharon. "Bar-Lev [Lieut. Gen. Haim Bar-Lev, the former chief of staff who was mobilized and given a major command in the Sinai's Southern Sector] did not perceive the time element. He believed that the Egyptian forces could...
...exasperated by delays on British Overseas Airways Corp. and British European Airways that "there were many times when I told my secretary never again to book me on BOAC or BEA." Maybe it takes a disgruntled customer to straighten out a business. The Conservative government tapped Nicolson to take command of both state-run airlines, and as he begins his third year on the job, his enterprise provides a conspicuous bright spot in Britain's gloomy economy...
...moved quickly and adroitly to consolidate his relations with Argentina's generals. The separate commands of the armed forces were abolished shortly before the inaugural. Perón now is in direct command of the entire military, a position that should allow him to suppress any potential revolt before it gets very far. He also launched "Operation Dorrego," a flood-relief project in which army units worked with Peronist youth to reclaim lands ruined by disastrous floods earlier this year. Significantly, a "provisional council" has been set up and is charged with "ideological purification" of the Justicialist Party. What...
Superintendent of Schools Alflorence Cheatham, whom the CCA brought to Cambridge from Chicago in 1972, appears to command the support of a majority of the new committee...