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Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia, once his country's King, then its Premier, still its most influential citizen, was given a royal welcome in Moscow last week. He came away aglow at the "astonishing hospitality. As for the leaders of the Soviet government I have been privileged to meet, I am able to see their dynamism, clairvoyance, realism, charming simplicity of manner, remarkable comprehension of international relations and understanding of the aspirations of the Asian peoples." He gratefully accepted a Soviet offer to build and staff a hospital in the Cambodian capital, and invited the Soviet leaders to visit...
...While fusty critics of public education might worry about the perilous state of high-school Latin, physics and mathematics, Teachers College, Columbia University, was all aglow over another trend. Driver education, reported T.C. happily, is now "the fastest-growing program in the country." Today four out of ten high schools teach it, making students "safer members of traffic society...
...city of Salzburg was aglow last summer with a magnificent production of Mozart's Magic Flute. To help usher in the Mozart year with style, the Austrians commissioned Oskar Kokoschka to design sets for the opera. The sets were a great success, and so was an extensive exhibit of Kokoschka's work at the Residenz Museum. Seventy year old Kokoschka was as bold as ever and from the looks of the large dramatic canvasses, sprawling with jotted forms and gushing color, gayer than usual. There was still a message but Kokoschka was definitely concentrating less on ideology and more...
Just before entertaining friends and relatives at luncheon in their Hyde Park Gate town house in London, Sir Winston and Lady Churchill, aglow with good spirits, stepped outside briefly to greet sundry well-wishers. "Wave, dear!" said Lady Churchill. In happy compliance, Churchill flashed his famous V-sign to signify his victory that day over 81 momentous years. All week long, post office trucks had brought a mountain of greetings and gifts to Sir Winston. A special messenger, U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich, had personally delivered a birthday present from Dwight Eisenhower: a three-inch gold medallion, struck...
...Polish ship Batory en route to Russia, Communist travelers gave Pierre Boulat, 31-year-old Paris photographer, a rough passage. "You are a dirty Fascist from TIME," the Communists jeered. "You are a corrupt photographer." But when the ship docked at Leningrad, the spirit of Geneva was still aglow. Soviet newsmen welcomed Boulat: "We know you are from TIME. How happy we are to see you!" And they whisked him about the city in a big black ZIS, stuffed him with food, and loaded him with gifts of caviar, jewelry and dolls...