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...points of his tour might be Argentina, which was included in the itinerary only at the last minute and after notable White House reluctance. In Buenos Aires that old yanqui'-baiter Juan Peron showed every sign of getting ready to roll out the red carpet for the U.S. President's brother. Peron had recalled personable Ambassador Hipolito Jesus Paz from Washington, presumably to help organize the welcome. Last week his regime suddenly let up on its campaign to drive U.S. news agencies out of the country. The strong man also passed the word to his well-trained press...
...Bloomfield Hills, Mich, has three gardeners to take care of his 30 acres of grounds, including the nine-hole golf course and the badminton and tennis courts. The manse itself is furnished with such creature comforts as antique chairs valued at $1,000 each and a $10,000 Persian carpet. Under construction near by is a new church, modeled after Scotland's Melrose Abbey, that wilt have cost about $3½ million by the time it is finished sometime...
...wheels-within-wheels complications of war, love and treachery would have stalled a clumsy novelist. But Novelist Waltari is anything but clumsy. Dramatically and lavishly, he paints in the spectacular background-the campfires of the approaching Turks lining the night horizon, the arrival of their army ("a huge, living carpet seemed to cover the earth"), the roar and hiss of the foundries relentlessly churning out the Sultan's culverins and giant bombards. At first, the massive walls of Constantinople seem little affected; then telltale lines begin to streak down the masonry, widening into fundamental fractures and splits. In these...
...cleared and a band, imported from Des Moines, struck up. At 11 p.m. everyone proceeded to the Uptown Theater for a "Hollywood First Night." Searchlights probed the sky and more than 1,000 Crestonians pressed against the ropes and ogled the kids as they went up the blue carpet past photographers and radio interviewers to see a Technicolored musical, The Girl Next Door...
Canada's courtly Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent paid his first call on President Eisenhower last week and Washington rolled out its plushiest red carpet. In two days with the President and other Administration leaders, St. Laurent covered a lot of ground. Among topics discussed: ¶ The St. Lawrence Seaway (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Asked how he felt about the seaway aftef 'talking to President Eisenhower, St. Laurent answered diplomatically : neither encouraged nor discouraged. ¶ U.S.-Canadian trade. St. Laurent worried about U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods, particularly about a bill, now pending before the House of Representatives, which...