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...deductions.") Five-thirty was the cocktail hour for the Dulleses, "Jerry" Greene and Dr. Kamin-one shot of Old Overholt rye with a splash of water for Dulles, for Mrs. Dulles a martini. In the evenings the Dulleses dined alone (typical menu: consommé, chipped beef on toast, cake), afterward played backgammon. Since 1932, Janet and Foster have kept a notebook record of their backgammon scores. Last week Janet Dulles fell even farther behind...
...inch, circular cake pan filled with earth was spun, and divided by a piece of lath. On each side of the barrier 23 kernels of corn were planted, and the pan was spun again to select the side to which "positive prayer" should be addressed. For eight days, prayer for growth was given to that side, prayer against growth to the other. Result: "Sixteen sturdy little seedlings greeted us on the positive side. On the negative side there was but one." Against that stubborn seedling the experimenters directed "several brief 'bursts' of negation-strong mental commands to grow...
Hale as could be on his 85th birthday, salty, shaggy Poet Robert Frost huffed lamely at a birthday cake, tackled the inevitable press conference. "Someone said to me that New England's in decay," rasped Frost. "But I said the next President is going to be from Boston. That doesn't sound like decay." Who, he was asked, might that be? "Can't you figure that out? It's a Puritan named (John) Kennedy." Aha, but did Frost want the boyish Senator to win? "Anything from Boston is all right with...
...presidential suite (two bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, bath) to pay early-morning calls on other patients in nearby rooms. On his 71st birthday-Feb. 25-he had not one but three parties. Before noon the hospital staff brought him two presents:1) a big birthday cake, 2) a "cheering" report on his progress at the end of his first week of radiation treatments...
...general, the Ford money provides the frosting on the sponge cake, and the Masters can spread it as they will. Experimentation will continue, but so far, the tutor-student dinners and House "visitations" are the core of the program...