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...controversial 72-year-old architect made a flying trip to Cambridge this weekend to view the site and confer with Dean Bundy and the Committee on the Practice of the Visual Arts, headed by Jose Luis Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design...
Critical Dates. Ike has wanted to visit India, the trip's high spot, for more than two years, but has never been able to take enough time out from Washington duties. Last month he saw his chance: there were three "critical dates"-Dec. 3, the earliest he could get away from preliminary budget chores; Dec. 11, the opening of the U.S. exhibit at the World Agricultural Fair in New Delhi; Dec. 19, the Western summit in Paris. Fortnight ago he sent off letters to India's Premier Nehru and Pakistan's President Ayub accepting longstanding invitations...
...aboard the cruiser. As his top diplomatic adviser Ike will take to Asia the State Department's retiring Troubleshooter Bob Murphy, who will delay his retirement (and starting his new jobs as a director of Corning Glass Works and president of Corning Glass Works International) to make the trip. New look on the diplomatic team: Daughter-in-Law Barbara Eisenhower, who will accompany Ike's aide and son, Major John, and act as hostess on behalf of Mamie Eisenhower. The First Lady, said Ike at his press conference, will stay home-"It is a little bit tough...
Author Thompson and Illustrator Knight recorded the international innocent after a 3½-week trip to Russia in February, can be certain that the book (75,000 copies in print before publication) will sell like blini. Author Thompson's humor is becoming strained, but whenever the text sags, the illustrations more than make up for it; Artist Knight has provided the most arresting views of Moscow since Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev (was great turn-of-century painter). All in all, is possible here to have fun with Eloise, in former days little girl, now diplomat...
Front-Porch Campaign. McKinley was a Puritan by inheritance. His father, an Ohio pig-iron founder, gave Will's mother the most austere wedding trip imaginable-a drive in the buggy to a nearby spring for a refreshing drink of water (the month was January). The son was as free of vice as he was of intellectual curiosity. Throughout his life, his favorite plays were Rip Van Winkle and The Cricket on the Hearth. Methodist McKinley's only unseemly heritage from the smoke-filled rooms where he started his political career was the habit of smoking an occasional...