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...copy of TIME with a picture of himself on the cover. Said the cover caption: "For Ike relief, for Chicago chaos." A few minutes later, a White House aide handed the correspondent a small envelope. It contained a warm personal farewell from Ike and Mamie. In a tongue-in-cheek postscript, the President stoutly denied that on Darby's departure there would be "For Ike relief, for Chicago chaos...
Continued Christianity and Crisis, tongue firmly in cheek: "The gods of Naturism usually receive full homage at the interfaith gatherings known as Summer Conferences. At such places there is usually a Cathedral of the Pines, in which worshipers are directed to meditate upon the beauty and straightness of trees rather than upon the Creator of the trees. At such places there is always an Inspiration Point . . . You will be particularly conscious of this if you come to it right after hearing an 'inspirational address' by a 'denominational leader...
Bulganin playfully pinched the cheek of an American security guard; at a reception, Khrushchev patted LIFE's Photographer Carl Mydans on the shoulder...
After one rare evening that ended in a Brahms string sextet played by Casals, with Violinists Menuhin and Arpad Gerescz. Violists Ernst Wallfisch and Karen Tuttle and Cellist Madeline Foley, the Queen left the audience and walked up onto the stage. Menuhin greeted her with a kiss on the cheek, then led her backstage to congratulate the shy Casals and the other members of the sextet...
...Victims of tic douloureux, an excruciating form of neuralgia, said Philadelphia's Neurosurgeon J. Rudolph Jaeger, are often too feeble for radical surgery, and lose their faith in doctors because most medical treatments give only short-lived relief. Under light general anesthesia, a needle is pushed through the cheek to the base of the skull, the surgeon following it by X ray. When it hits the Gasserian ganglion, he injects scalding water (158°F.), which kills the sensory nerves. Dr. Jaeger has had good results in 27 of 32 tic victims, and some success with facial cancer patients...