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...special feature is a stretch of bench that might be marked in Braille, "Please touch the flowers." Designed for blind children, it contains cacti without thorns, a patch of herbs including several fragrant geraniums such as the lemon, rose, nutmeg and mint varieties. Within hours of its dedication, the exhibit's leaves had been thoroughly pawed, and many a blind child had pressed scented fingers to nostrils dilating with the joy of discovery...
Presidential Remodeling. The ironic upshot is that Congress bickers impotently, and President Lleras is free to rebuild Colombia. He sent peacemaking commissions into the hinterland to patch up Liberal-Conservative feuds. Where the fighting had degenerated into nonpolitical banditry, he used troops. By last week only the coffee-rich Andean department of Caldas remained to be pacified...
Military danger sometimes makes strange bedfellows, and for a while it looked as if Pakistan and India might patch up their differences in a defense agreement. Communist China's machinations in Tibet have had widespread effects, from the conciliatory talks in Karachi and New Delhi to proposals by Vice-President Nixon and Senator Kennedy that the U.S. boost India's rate of economic growth to that of China...
...from the U.S., and enough material was gleaned to fill a projected ten-volume treatise on Saint Catherine's monastery. The expedition packed in their own food supplies, since the 13 monks that keep the monastery cannot spare any food from the sparse yield of their parched garden patch...
...Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold struggled to patch up relations between his students and New Haven cops-askew after last month's snowball-and-night-stick war (TIME, March 30)-an old grad unkindly recalled some carefree words addressed to a student mob in 1951, less than a year after Griswold had taken office. Said the president, in the green days of administrative youth: "I love a riot . . . I loved them when I was an undergraduate . . . I can yield to no one the record of smashed light bulbs...