Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Khrushchev enlisted the support of General K.S. Moskalenko, the air-defense commander. He was soon joined in the plot by ten other generals and marshals, including Georgy Zhukov, who was later to become Khrushchev's Defense Minister. "In those days all military personnel were required to check their weapons when coming into the Kremlin, so Bulganin was instructed to see that the marshals and generals were allowed to bring their guns with them," says Khrushchev. "We arranged for Moskalenko's group to wait for a summons in a separate room." On the appointed day, the conspirators and their...
...golf course and tennis court. A windup Richard Nixon box looks something like a toaster and contains a loose-jointed figure in the presidential image that dances to a tinkly Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay. Strangely silent, however, is the forthcoming Martha Mitchell doll, authorized by the Attorney General's wife herself...
...renaming Paris' Place d'Etoile after Charles de Gaulle really enough of a tribute? Why not go all out and make the late general a saint? The idea was suggested by a German journalist and backed up by no less a dignitary than the Vatican's Jean Cardinal Danielou, who said that the idea "does not shock me." How about the miracles normally required for canonization? Merely an innovation of modern times, said Danielou. More important was the ability "to practice virtues with a certain degree of heroism." In any case there was no particular hurry. Joan...
Refusal to Grow Up. To Midge Decter, writing in Commentary, the feminist's problem is her refusal to grow up: "To judge from what she says and does-finding only others at fault for her predicaments, speaking always of herself as a means of stating the general case, shedding tears as a means of negotiation-the freedom she seeks is a freedom demanded by children and enjoyed by no one: the freedom from all difficulty...
...WEEK before he left Rome on his eight-country tour of Asia, Australia and Oceania, Pope Paul VI told a general audience that the theme of his trip was "the discovery of the church." Paul explained that the church is "so deep, complex and involved with the destinies of individuals and mankind that we shall never succeed in grasping it adequately. We must always be exploring it." Last week, as he completed the trip, the peripatetic Pontiff gave every evidence that he was learning from his explorations -just as many along his route were seeing a new dimension of Catholicism...