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Last month, when Vice President Nixon left rioting Venezuela in saddened haste, he flew to San Juan. That night he spent 40 minutes wading four blocks through cheering Puerto Ricans ("Arriba Nixon!") to the wrought-iron gates of 400-year-old La Fortaleza, where Muñoz gave him a state dinner in the ancient fort's great candlelit dining room. Said Nixon: "I couldn't think of a better place to be." Said Muñoz: "Mr. Vice President, está en su casa [you are in your house...
...journey to make a courtesy call on the Oni of Ife. The Oni, the Hon. Sir Adesoji Aderemi, King and spiritual leader of 4,500,000 Yoruba tribesmen, was delighted by the visit. An hour earlier, workmen, clearing a site for a new building, had uncovered a few delicately wrought bronze relics, and the Oni was eager to show them off. After one look at the find-two bronze statues, two egg-shaped staff finials, two solid brass staffs, and a decorated drinking vessel-Fagg rushed excitedly to the site, ordered it sealed...
...single concession to TV, the chatter is usually preceded by a Gibson-wrought gimmick: Gibson sliding onto the set in a Mercedes-Benz, riding a horse across stage, standing in a snowstorm outside flinging snowballs, or giving heli copter lessons from a whirlybird hovering above the station parking...
Wilder himself took mild exception to what TV had wrought. "The addition of the Beatitudes is a crossing of the t's and a dotting of the i's,'' he said afterwards. "I prefer understatement." Of the show itself: "The book has a lighter tone. On TV there was too much concentration of misery. They caught the theme but not the tone of the book." Wilder's interpretation of the theme: "Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value...
...them-were hungry for work. Desolate, they moved from harvest to harvest-scrounging food for emaciated children, bedding down in farm shacks or U.S. Government emergency camps, harried by highway patrolmen and sheriffs' deputies-to become a symbol in fact and fiction of the desperate injustices wrought by drought and Depression...