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...blue-blooding of Carter may come as a considerable surprise to the President's family, which hitherto has traced its roots to a different and less-distinguished Virginia branch. (On his visit to England in June, Chip Carter apparently visited the wrong ancestral village, Christchurch, which is about 100 miles southwest of King's Langley.) In any event, Carter's onetime countrymen are delighted to find that the President of the U.S. is to the manor born, sort of. Says Brooks-Baker: "The English always wanted Carter to be an aristocrat...
Since Franco's death, Madrid has sprouted two combative new dailies, El Pais and Diario 16, and a host of snappy magazines like Interviu and Opinion. Theatergoers have been able to see hitherto forbidden plays by Federico Garcia Lorca and Bertolt Brecht. Moviegoers have flocked to such films as Songs for After a War, a documentary on the Franco era, Carlos Saura's Cousin Angelica, a thoughtful flashback to civil war divisions, and Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator...
Well before its publication, this second novel by a hitherto obscure Australian had become an economic event. Harper & Row ran off 225,000 hardback copies and put up $100,000 as an initial advertising budget. The Literary Guild made the book its main selection for June, relegating Erich Segal's Oliver's Story, a dead-certain moneymaker, to second place. Avon Books shelled out $1.9 million for paperback reprint rights, topping the record $1.85 million that Bantam Books paid for E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime two years...
...Ford Motor Co. to recall 54,000 cars to make sure that they meet emission standards. Skepticism can be credited with last year's California referendum on nuclear power; the fact that the voters did not veto nuclear expansion misses the point, which is that an arcane subject hitherto considered the sole province of the scientist and engineer was submitted to ordinary citizens. And only a remarkably awakened citizenry could have inspired the self-criticism of the recent Senate committee report that chastised the Senate for laxness in overseeing the agencies that oversee the industries that are conduits...
Shortly after his death, however, friends arranged for the publication of his major work, The Phenomenon of Man. Other hitherto suppressed books soon followed. Teilhard became a theological sensation just as the Catholic Church was entering the period of intellectual freedom stirred by the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. Since then, the Teilhard boom has waned considerably, though he continues to have a strong following-a cult, some would say -in many areas, notably France...