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Despite the formality of such occasions, some diplomatic hosts are better known-and liked-than others. "Some make the grade because of the countries they represent," a Brazilian diplomat once explained it, "and some in spite of the countries they represent." Britain's Sir Harold Caccia entertains infrequently, but the British embassy is decidedly a place to be seen (although Lady Caccia has earned many a raised eyebrow because of her custom of moving guests from one after-dinner conversational cluster to another). Belgium's Silvercruys gives small but elegant dinners at his home, forbids shop talk...
...military science, steel production, poetry, art, and the uses of fertilizer. Every proclaimed achievement begins with the phrase "Thanks to Chairman Mao." His public appearances arouse excitement bordering on hysteria, evoke near tearful tributes to his "affectionate and kindly gaze.'' Nor are foreigners immune to his spell: Brazilian Sculptor Maria Martins recalls him as "a glowing image-a genius in terms of 20th century politics and a sage out of ancient China...
...Minister confidently told Sam Watson, former chairman of the British Labor Party: "Even if 200 million of us were killed, we would still have 400 million left." Mao himself makes no bones of his ambition to "drive the U.S. out of East Asia," recently told a Brazilian journalist: "We must attack the tiger again and again until we finally kill...
...support can be expanded and the program made selfperpetuating, the Harvard Undergraduate Teachers could be a very effective antidote to the Boston area teaching probrem--as well as an interesting "extra-curricular" for energetic students.ROSSITER AND NICHOLS SUGGEST Gone With the Wind and Uncle Tom's Cabin to a Brazilian sophomore at Newton interested in the American Civil War. The HUT's have just explained "abolitionism...
...Panagra are required to charge $678. To top it all off, U.S. airlines are limited by local regulations as to the number of seats that they can sell. Brazil restricts Pan Am to 430 seats a week (a figure set years ago) while major Brazilian airlines, Varig and Real, run without quotas. Some ten years ago Pan Am and Panagra were two out of nine companies servicing Latin America; today the total...