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...President called to mind the Duke of Kent's lament for King Lear: "A good man's fortune may grow out at heels." Whether Johnson was a good man to begin with is disputed by many of his critics, but his tribulations were sufficient to deter any man of lesser fortitude or obstinacy. Week by week, his popularity-plummeted, reaching a low of 38% in October, where once he had basked in the approval of 80% of the nation (at year's end, however, Gallup showed him up to 46%). Congress, only recently scorned as a "rubber stamp," turned around...
...total victory for three main reasons. First, the war has proved to be costlier in lives, treasure and international prestige than the U.S. anticipated when it began fighting in earnest almost three years ago. Second, while the primary goal has been elusive, the U.S. has accomplished some of its lesser objectives in Viet Nam. Its intervention has bought time-time for such nations as Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia to reinforce their own political, economic and military defenses against subversion. And it has helped the process of nation-building in a truncated chunk of a former French colony...
Common Market Commission President Jean Rey warned that failure by the Six to agree to negotiate with Brit ain would produce a "grave crisis" and be "a frightful political blunder." returning from a London visit with Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Rey reported that Britain wanted no part of a lesser association with the EEC, or any other arrangement short of full membership...
...blues in the history of painting equal the electric indigos and aquas that ornament the baked enamel crafted in the 15th and 16th centuries for princes and prelates in the French city of Limoges. These extraordinary hues, combined with lesser colors, were used by master craftsmen to limn exquisitely detailed pictures on altarpieces, caskets. ewers and platters, garnished lavishly with silver and gold. Subjects range from the Annunciation to the labors of Hercules, and some panels even chronicle minor themes like the French proverb of the bad shepherd.* The finest U.S. collection of these Renaissance enamels is owned...
...Rome's Sacred Consistorial Congregation after making his own investigation of their qualities. To fill smaller sees, the Pope usually accepts one of the province's nominees; major archbishoprics, more often than not, involve the elevation of a prelate who has proved his worth in lesser assignments...