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...many people arrived for the party, including busloads of American tourists, that one old lady was prompted to remark: "Did President Eisenhower decide to come after all?" Apart from the crowds, the little cakes and flowing Schaumwein, the big three sat on a circular veranda and held an impromptu press conference. In obvious reference to recent speculation that Mikoyan had been downgraded, one correspondent said to him: "It's a very pleasant surprise to see you here, and everyone is commenting on the fact." With heavy humor, Mikoyan replied: "Were you opposed to my coming?" He spoke with...
Declarations of Nullity. The Sacred Roman Rota is 700 years old and probably takes its name from the circular hall in which its priestly judges, who are called auditors, used to convene. It is, with rare exceptions, the court of last appeal as to whether or not a marriage is valid in the eyes of the Roman Catholic Church. Its wheels grind slowly: the average case drags on for four to five years, and some may last for 20. When one woman complained to a churchman that her beauty might suffer, he replied: "Madame, the church has observed that...
...York's Idlewild International Airport last week, Pan American World Airways opened the world's most striking terminal-a $12 million glass-and-steel circular structure that is topped off by an immense, umbrellalike, cantilevered roof. With a 114-ft. overhang, the roof can shelter all but the tail sections of six jetliners at one time. Pan Am's is the fourth individual terminal to be opened at Idlewild. American, United and Eastern are already in operation. By 1962 the North-west-Braniff-Northeast building will be up. So will Eero Saarinen's spectacular gull-like...
Even the latest interplanetary firecracker shot off by Khrushchev's obliging scientists was a dud. Moscow Radio trumpeted the news that Russia had put a 4.5-ton "spaceship" into near-circular orbit about 200 miles above the earth. Inside the new satellite, said Moscow, was a pressurized cabin containing a dummy spaceman, "all necessary equipment for future manned flight," and about 1.5 tons of instrumentation...
...secrets of Biskupin. Damming the site and pumping it dry, the diggers found that the slanting logs were the outer fringe of fortifications; just inside was a second wall made of three rows of log cribs filled with stones and earth, and enclosing a roughly circular area of about six acres. Except for a small open square, the entire area was packed with log houses, built wall to wall in 13 straight rows and almost exactly alike...