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Thinking perhaps of such hapless compatriots as Joan of Arc and Marie Antoinette, Alphonse Lamartine, the 19th century French poet, declared: "Women are very frequently heroic, but seldom statesmanlike." Today, more than ever, given charm, taste, tact-and looks-the wife of a ruler can be statesmanlike simply by being a woman. In the color pages that follow, TIME surveys a new and lively generation of First Ladies who are adding style and spirit to statecraft from Abidjan to Washington. Whether entertaining at home or making the foreign rounds with their husbands, the reigning beauties of 1962 are the West...
Glory to the Heroes. Dominicans celebrated the anniversary of Trujillo's assassination last week with horn-tooting street parades. Beside a highway outside the capital, a plaque was undraped on the spot where Trujillo died: ''Glory to the heroic liberating act of the 30th of May." Only one of the four "liberators"' was present for the ceremony: the other three triggermen all died in the aftermath at the hands of Trujillo's troops. The survivor, Council Member Antonio Imbert, 41, hid for six months in a friend's shuttered room, is still a presumed...
...There is no such thing as was," Faulkner once said, and in his county-partly because it cannot let go of the nostalgic, bittersweet memory of the Civil War, partly because Faulkner has arranged it-everything that has happened for nearly a hundred years exists in an instantaneous, perpetual, heroic present. Faulkner does not so much invent as he seems to recollect his action and anecdote from an existing, constantly growing body of lore. The Reivers is no exception. The outrageous doings of Boon and Lucius in 1905 are told, in 1962, by Lucius to his grandson. Mostly, Lucius remembers...
...Eddie Mathews has been on and off the bench. The fans, who once turned out in record numbers, have been staying away from County Stadium." They hate Lou Perini, who has traded away many good ballplayers, such as Frank Thomas. Thomas is hitting .335 with 13 homers for the heroic Mets. The Braves, who sorely need a left fielder, have been using Howie Bedell, a .260 hitter in the minors, as his replacement...
Clearly, it was Brother Martin's heroic life, rather than the color of his skin, that brought him official church recognition as a saint. But just as clearly, his canonization was intended to honor Roman Catholics in Africa and Asia, and to point up Rome's stiffening opposition to racial prejudice. Notes the official Vatican account of his sanctity: "By his whole apostolic life, his prayers, his words, his example, even his miracles, he made it clear that every race and nationality has the same dignity, the same equality, because we are all sons of one heavenly Father...