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...Ndola. the small Rhodesian town where the Secretary-General had been bound to negotiate peace in Katanga. When the body arrived in Stockholm aboard an American DC-yC, 250,000 mourners gathered for a torchlight procession. At Uppsala the closed casket, nearly buried in flowers, was placed in the 13th century Lutheran cathedral, where 15,000 townfolk came to say their farewells...
Write & Rewrite. Next day, hurrying to get away for his regular weekend on Cape Cod (the 13th in a row), he signed 22 bills into law, including the one that gave permanent authorization to the Peace Corps. Recalling the doubts drummed up about the program in Congress, the President expressed his esteem for the political salesmanship of Brother-in-Law Sarge Shriver Jr., director of the Corps, only half-jokingly dubbed him "the most effective lobbyist on the Washington scene...
...work whose author risks arrest. Cripple Mah, Lee's addlepated hero, is protected by his Schweikian stupidity from the dangers of the new people's democratic dictatorship. There is no sense of immediacy; the reader feels Mah could equally well be blundering through the tumultuous 13th century China described in the picaresque classic, Flower Shadows Behind the Curtain...
...coronation hints at her ancient ancestry. But the real proof comes when we find that the function served by The Girl in our culture is just as much a 'religious' one as that served by Cybele in hers." Just as the Virgin in the 12th and 13th centuries sustained the ideals of the age, "so The Girl symbolizes the values and aspirations of a consumer society. (She is crowned not in the political capital, notice, but in Atlantic City or Miami Beach, centers associated with leisure and consumption.)" Not that Baptist Cox identifies The Girl with the Madonna...
Married. Henry Robin Ian Russell, Marquess of Tavistock, 21, Harvard senior and heir of the tax-pinched 13th Duke of Bedford; and Henrietta Tiarks, 21, Britain's Debutante of the Year in 1957, who has since enjoyed well-publicized if fleeting flings with the present Aga Khan, the modeling profession and Briarcliff College (N.Y.); in London...