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Mexico's famed resort city of Cuernavaca, balmy and scented with jasmine and heliotrope, has just the atmosphere for languorous relaxation. As the 45,000 Mexican inhabitants pad about the streets, busily putting things off until mañana, many of the 5,000 U.S. residents take their ease in elegant villas with lush gardens, shady patios, gemlike swimming pools and high pastel walls...
Meanwhile, growing needs for housing forced Washington to prod the private builder into action. Section 608 was written with a series of gaping loopholes built in as lures. Under a loose and generous appraisal system, the builder was encouraged to pad his estimated costs and borrow more than he needed. At the same time, the government gave up the control position it had formerly held in the private firm. Under this earlier provision it had been able to watch the builder and block his attempts to overborrow. With 608, the government stepped down and turned its back...
John Finley had wanted to show the touring freshmen his own residence as a 150 dollar double, but the Key men thought this would be too much horse play. As the guides added witty commentary, my conscientious friends printed "Finely's house not $150 double" on his note pad. The leader showed us the fabulous Eliot grille and then the chapel, "for any of you that are religious." And so on to Kirkland...
Anthony Eden fidgeted a bit, crossing and uncrossing his Savile Row-clad legs. Georges Bidault sat with head back and eyes closed as if in sleep; he was as alert as an ocelot. John Foster Dulles looked up from a note pad scratched with doodles...
Abrupt and unsmiling, Dulles rammed a pencil point into his scratch pad. "But who is this Chou En-lai whose addition to our circle would make possible all that so long seemed impossible [see box]? He is a leader of a regime which gained de facto power on the China mainland through bloody war . . . which became an open aggressor in Korea . . . which promotes aggression in Indo-China...