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...press, Bonnet found, was one of his most important diplomatic objectives: "The greatest skill an ambassador requires is to be able to emerge from a visit at the State Department and reveal something which puts the American press on his side. But this is a very delicate business. Solemn promises of complete discretion have been exchanged only a few minutes before. Propriety demands that they be respected until the evening...
...Wonderful? Alternately solemn and impish, Churchill commented ambiguously ("A most remarkable piece of modern art") on the portrait of himself painted by Graham Sutherland (see ART). He was loftily deprecatory of his wartime role. "It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar." He concluded gravely: "I am now nearing the end of my journey. I hope I still have some services to render." When he sat down, his wife leaned across to pat his hand affectionately. Then...
Only 20 months ago, the Securities & Exchange Commission and the Ontario Securities Commission signed a solemn covenant to put an end to the wild-eyed promotion of worthless Canadian mining stocks in the U.S. Under the agreement, Ontario said it would force its stockbrokers to abide by SEC laws when peddling stocks in the U.S.; if they failed to do so, they would be subject to extradition and trial in U.S. courts. Last week Chairman O. E. Lennox of the Canadian commission announced that Ontario had dropped the deal as "a dismal failure...
...first of two poems in the issue, Alan R. Grossman's "The Sands of Paran" employs Old Testament imagery to describe the plight of a modern world which is the "I" in this poem. The solemn cadence of the meter lends to Grossman's piece a suitable gravity. In "Two Symbols of Reality," Peter Junger uses a sexton as the symbol of death's irony: "Proudly he seeds the rotting earth and plucks sweet fruits out of the mourner's dearth," And his priest who takes "all sins upon his head" seems to be the symbol of human compassion...
...surreptitiously, to foil eager Indian photographers. Pondicherry had been widely known as a "goodtime town" and a smuggler's paradise (less than 1% of the millions of dollars worth of watches, silks and other luxury goods imported into Pondicherry went to its local citizens). Last week elderly, solemn Indian officials moved into choice hotel rooms previously used as brothels. One disgruntled hotelman pointed to a big stack of empty whisky bottles beside his back veranda and sighed: "That is a sight that Pondicherry will not again...