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...read the article about the visit to the U.S. of Ivory Coast's President Felix Houphouet-Boigny [May 25] and his exclamation as he got off the boat: "I am filled with emotion to arrive in this most solid democracy in the world." If this sympathetic President thinks about solidity of democracy in terms of nuclear punch, I agree with him; if he is thinking, however, of the solidity of democratic institutions, I would like to invite him and Mme. Houphouet-Boigny to Switzerland...
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Ivory Coast LL.D...
...this week, for the regulation Washington round of banquets and Manhattan ticker-tape parade, is Ivory Coast's debonair President Felix Houphouet-Boigny, 56, an African nationalist whose credo is refreshingly different from the views of many other black African leaders. Colonialism, he believes, did much good in Africa, and the white man, as well as democracy, is essential to the continent's future. Said he as he got off the boat: "I am filled with emotion to arrive in this most solid democracy in the world...
Eagle, who once towered over a troupe of 187 little people, now has to make do with only one midget-Felix, the smallest Perfect Man-who sells the World's Tiniest Bible for 25?. The sideshow's giant, Eddie Carmel-the World's Largest Giant-allows children to take a huge ring off his finger for 25? a take. They get to keep the ring-Eddie's supply is endless. According to Eagle, Carmel would be 18 inches taller than he looks if he could straighten up; he is billed at straightened-up height...
Jenny Lind's friends included Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Schumann and Brahms. Her great friend Felix Mendelssohn loved to sit at his piano and explore her upper register. Frederic Chopin referred to her affectionately as "this Swede." She often rode along the trails of Wimbledon with the 78-year-old Duke of Wellington, who decorated his dotage with bright young ladies of the stage. The crowned potentates of the Continent competed for her friendship, from Prince Metternich of Austria to King Frederick William of Prussia. She was a close friend of England's Queen Victoria. Accordingly, when Jenny Lind died...