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...summitry-decided to go to Vienna to meet Nikita Khrushchev. He hoped, he said, to size up Khrushchev and to warn him against miscalculating U.S. determination in the cold war. He knew beforehand that Khrushchev was tough-but only at Vienna did he discover how tough. "The difficulty of reaching accord was dramatized in those two days," he says today. There was no shouting or shoe banging, but the meeting was grim. At one point Kennedy noted a medal on Khrushchev's chest and asked what it was. When Khrushchev explained that it was for the Lenin Peace Prize...
...Secretary Pierre Salinger: "The President's back is stronger. It will be several months, however, before the President can resume vigorous physical activity, and he must expect to experience, as do all people with similar back problems, ups and downs and occasional setbacks." So hopeful had Kennedy been beforehand of a favorable prognosis that he proposed a golf match with Jacqueline and visiting Sister-in-Law Lee Radziwill, his first in seven months. After the checkup, the threesome settled for a cruise aboard the presidential yacht Honey Fitz...
Microscopic Eyes. Least known of all is Rodolphe Bresdin. Redon accepted him as a master, wrote that "his power lay in imagination alone. He never conceived anything beforehand. He improvised with joy." Victor Hugo and Baudelaire also admired him, but the public ignored him. He was found dead one day in 1885 in a cold garret in Sèvres, almost as unknown as he was the day he was born...
Ground Rules. Before his speech, Walker held a press conference. Under Walker's ground rules, only Texas newsmen were allowed to attend, and Walker, wrote out both questions and answers beforehand. Sample question: "General Walker, we would like to know how important is censorship." Answer: "I feel that censorship is very important. It is indicated by the title of the book published by The Bookmailer, Censorship and Survival [which is actually a pamphlet version of Walker's statement of resignation from the Army]. Censorship can be a line through words or a line through a country. Both have...
...days beforehand, the single sentence had been heard so often among people in the New York art world that it began to sound a bit like a secret password: "I suppose I'll be seeing you Wednesday night." On the night in question last week, the nation's biggest auction house, Parke-Bernet Galleries, sold off a group of 24 paintings that had been collected by the late advertising executive Alfred William Erickson and his wife Anna. Among the paintings was Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, which bears the unhappy nickname of "The Million...