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...collection of U.S. memorabilia intended to tell a social history of the U.S., ranging from a cigar-store wooden Indian to an early-model Ford, a chipped plaster statue of Washington and a glass showcase of latter-day examples of Western tumbleweeds. Some of the signs, said Robertson, were embarrassingly inept. Example: an 18th century New England Windsor chair-cum-writing-arm artily labeled in three languages as the model of chairs used in "virtually all" U.S. schools today. "A group I saw," said Robertson, "read the card and burst into laughter...
...midst of a top-hole week-in which a family history, The Churchills, by Historian A. L. Rowse (TIME. May 12), drew critical tribute from British reviewers, and France offered him a high decoration (see FOREIGN NEWS)-Elder (83) Statesman Sir Winston Churchill, with cigar, cane and topper, plunked down in the middle of the Ascot paddock to keep an eye on his Tudor Monarch in the $30,660 Gold Cup. Souring the big day, horse failed man as Tudor Monarch finished fourth behind the American-owned, Irish-trained mare Gladness...
...manufacturers, big and small, poured in, chiefly to make products-pens, radios, brassieres, baby shoes-that needed a good deal of hand work and could be transported cheaply. Hastening to the island came Paper-Mate, General Electric, Maidenform, B.V.D., Consolidated Cigar, Weston, Union Carbide, Parke, Davis & Co., Remington Rand, Bostitch and others (see map). Last week the 667th factory-a cutlery plant in Gurabo -went into production. For the catalytic $40 million in loans, plant construction and promotion, Fomento got the island $275 million in investment, 80,000 new jobs. Like the moving needles on the instrument board...
Greatest achievement of the new regime at St. Bernard has been in winning over the hard-shell Protestant businessmen of Cullman. To do this, the priests became civic boosters, joined the Chamber of Commerce leaders in lassoing new industry, notably a recently arrived cigar manufacturer, whose emissaries were entertained at the college (which knows how to throw a good cocktail party in a dry county). Says Cullman's Mayor Bill Arnold: "St. Bernard is the greatest institution we've got. For the first time we're beginning to feel a cultural upswing. Certainly St. Bernard...
With the wariness of a man accepting a cigar from a notorious practical joker, the White House noted that the letter "seems" to accept the U.S. position on the need for joint technical studies as a possible "basis for progress toward agreement on disarmament." Added Secretary of State Dulles, who has seen many a Red cigar explode: "We don't get optimistic quickly about these matters, but at least there is some progress...