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...Geneva during his recent European tour, Indonesia's President Sukarno slipped into an out-of-the-way cinema for an evening's relaxation after a hard day of negotiations with pretty shopgirls and Swiss arms manufacturers. No doubt the "Bung" (Brother), an old movie buff, needed a bit of tranquilizing, but the feature film proved to be The Fall of the Roman Empire. In light of what has been happening in Indonesia of late, it must have scanned like a sneak preview...
...Dean was speaking at a ceremony in which he was awarded an honorary degree, and in which he opened a new Oxford University law library. The new library of buff brick, is of modernistic design, in contrast to the traditional stone of Oxford's other buildings...
...statistics said he had a worse game (by three yards) against Rutgers as a sophomore, but Lion coach Buff Donelli wasn't buying. "I've never seen him look worse," he said after the game...
...building shows how the architect excels by pleasing the client as well as himself. Saarinen's client, Architecture Buff William Hewitt, chairman of Deere, delivered the ultimate compliment by hesitating to talk about the building - it would be "like a beautiful girl telling you how beautiful...
...irrepressible fire buff, Fiedler indoctrinated his Beacon Hill socialite bride by squiring her to all-night vigils in firehouses, for variety dragged her along on forays with the Boston police. Today the Fiedlers live in a baronial brick mansion in Brookline with their two daughters, a son, and a collection of fire helmets and honorary fire-chief badges from some 90 cities...