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Died. George Charles Montagu, 87, ninth Earl of Sandwich, whose :8th century ancestor, the fourth Earl, is credited with concocting the first sandwich (a slab of beef between two pieces of bread) because he once refused to leave the gaming table for a more conventional repast, recipient in 1956 of the National Pickle Packers Association's annual "Pickle Award" in gratitude for the sandwich's assistance in helping the pickle packers peddle a peck of pickles; in Huntingdon, England...
...vice president of Curtis Publishing Co.. Pahlmann's nine-room apartment on Park Avenue is filled with items and ideas that could furnish a museum twice its size. He designed his own V'Soske area rug, has mixed Louis XV and XVI, 17th century English, :8th century Genoese and Venetian, Chinese tea paper, Portuguese rag rug. In Pahlmann's favorite manner, one small bedroom is tented with cotton in blue, red and gold stripes. The library has a door, concealed by bookshelves, that leads directly into this bedroom. The master bedroom, whose ceiling is overlaid with...
Beautiful As the Moon. Near the end of the 8th century, the mighty King Jayavarman II founded the first great dynasty of Angkor, and for the next 300 years the Khmers added steadily to their glory. They were prodigious engineers: their moats, canals and reservoirs made the land so fertile that hunger was virtually unknown. One inscription honors a king, not for his conquests but for creating a reservoir "beautiful as the moon, to refresh mankind and to drown the insolence of the other kings...
...silvery Stalin statues, busts, romantic paintings, prints and touched-up photographs that were coming down from parks, museums, railway stations, airports, government buildings, hotels, factories and apartments. There had been nothing like it since the austere iconoclasts destroyed all the icons and shattered all the statues of the lusty 8th century Byzantine Empire.* Out in the satellites of Eastern Europe, stupefied Reds could not seem to make up their minds what to do about their years of Stalinolatry...
...most far-reaching was the 8th (1919), which endorsed the Comintern as the export agency for worldwide Communist revolution, and adopted Lenin's creed that wars with capitalist states are "fatalistically inevitable." Even more dramatic was the 2Oth in 1956 at which Khrushchev 1) reversed Lenin by announcing that peaceful coexistence had become a fundamental principle of Soviet policy, and 2) in a six-hour, closed-session speech reviled Stalin as a "brutal, despotic" merchant of "moral and physical annihilation...