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...group invited 60 or more outstanding citizens to dinner. They met ballerinas in Warsaw, poets in Budapest, movie stars in Prague, and university professors and journalists everywhere. And the tour left time for the travelers to explore on their own. In Warsaw, two or three visited a Polish university center for a three-hour talk with some of the students. In Budapest, on the tenth anniversary of the Hungarian revolution, some of the tour members heard Liszt's moving Coronation Mass sung at historic Matthias Church, where the Hungarian kings were once crowned. There was time for a boat...
...During a three-hour ceremony at Pleiku, Ky sat impassively in his black uniform and lavender scarf, removing his gloves only to put on the brass bracelets that symbolize Montagnard friendship. Solemnly, 250 Montagnard rebels knelt before him to pledge allegiance to the Saigon government. Then, as Ky, a host of government officials, and U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge looked queasily on, the Montagnards poured rice wine over the Premier's boots and slashed a water buffalo to death in honor of the Saigon visitors. Fortunately, the sacrifice took only five minutes rather than the usual hour or more...
Consider also that Harvard will be playing right on top of a three-hour bus ride; that fullback Karl Lunkenheimer is till out of action and such key performers as Joe Gould, Dudley Blodget, and Bill Schaefer are physically below par; that Williams boasts an undefeated team which last week ended Middlebury's string of 17 straight regular season wins, and you see why Harvard is clearly the underdog...
Aware of Dangers. Goaded into action, Lyndon Johnson summoned his top economic advisers to the White House for a three-hour nighttime meeting. The President, too, had been well aware of the dangers of the upswing in interest rates, but had decided to play a waiting game, hoping that monetary measures by the Federal Reserve would cool off the economy enough so that he would not have to take action before the election. Johnson's own Council of Economic Advisers earlier this year unanimously favored some form of tax increase to deflate demand and take some of the pressure...
...nightclub hopping. The clubs are so far apart that, as Actor Peter Falk complains, "You have to pack water," and Los Angeles is an early-to-bed, early-to-rise town where many executives have to be up in time to tune in with New York's three-hour head start on the business...