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...TIME for its polished reportage on the U.S. visit of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. The visit itself and articles such as yours help to bring a "strengthening of the British-American friendship ties" which the Queen referred to at the President's banquet...
...Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, a library founded by Herbert Hoover at Stanford University in 1919, held a fund-raising banquet in Los Angeles, got a message from the ex-President saluting its archives as "the records of the highest idealism yet expressed by man . . . the minutes of every important effort of men to make peace." Asked by a Manhattan reporter for his views on another matter-the health of the U.S. economy-Hoover disclosed that economic crystal gazing is no longer for him: "I'm through with that sort of thing. I'm busy writing...
Accompanying Ike to Manhattan for his speech to medical educators (see MEDICINE), Mamie Eisenhower passed up the banquet for My Fair Lady. Ike's speech finished, he whizzed over to Broadway, slipped into the darkened theater in time to join Mamie for the final 40 minutes. Recognized by few in the audience, Ike and the First Lady left just before the final curtain, were outside being cheered by a crowd when Stage Manager Biff Liff came on stage and wrongly announced their presence inside. Next afternoon, Mamie saw Auntie Mame, dropped backstage at intermission to greet her old friend...
...underscored by Vice President Nixon in a major policy speech that went well beyond any previous statement of foreign economic objectives by the Eisenhower Administration. For the black-tied delegates who live by business and were resigned to political oratory, Nixon's brass-tacks address at the main banquet of the conference was a rare surprise. Said Nixon: "The private initiative, the private responsibility and private capital which you represent are the motors of economic progress. The economic growth which you generate is vital to the future of the whole free world. In many nations, the pattern of economic...
...band of armed robbers climb a hill near the mouth of the Nile and stare down at an awesome sight. A richly laden but crewless merchant ship is moored near shore, the remains of a banquet lie scattered along the beach, and all around sprawl the bodies of slain men. Only two are alive: a badly wounded young Greek named Theagenes, who is being tended by Charicleia, a girl so beautiful that the brigands think she must be a goddess...