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...ever in America," found themselves with protocol-sized problems-Harriman with a reception in his Manhattan apartment, Mrs. R. with a tour of the F.D.R. home at Hyde Park. Khrush's favorite U.S. farmer, Roswell Garst of Coon Rapids, Iowa, placated photographers by trying on a coat given him by Khrushchev in Moscow last March, finally decided to turn his planned small country luncheon for the Khrushchev party over to a Des Moines caterer. Most overtaxed solo performer of all: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., assigned by the President to be Khrushchev's official host, ready...
...also the turning point-upward. The President still had his share of troubles, including "the most hurtful, the hardest, the most heartbreaking'' decision of all: asking the resignation of his staff chief, Sherman Adams, who had accepted hotel hospitality and gifts, including a vicuña coat, from finagling Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. But in much more important areas, he returned from Milestone Plantation ready, as he had not been since his heart attack, to follow the creed of Theodore Roosevelt: "Here is the task. I have...
LUXURY STORE FIGHT for Harrods of London, Britain's most elegant department store, was won by thistle-sharp Scots Millionaire Hugh Fraser, after battle with rival Debenhams chain. Fraser, who heads $78 million no-frill, working-class House of Fraser chain, promises to maintain Harrods' morning-coat reputation...
Alexander Calder's coat-hanger agglomerations of free forms twist and bob lazily on the breeze, exploit the possibilities for chance movement that reside in lightly balanced equilibriums. Lye's idea is to exploit instead the resiliences of high-tempered steels and flexible plastics. He raises simple abstract constructions of such materials on pedestals containing silent motor-vibrators. At a taped signal, the motors go into action, moving first slowly, then faster in a carefully calculated cycle, and the sculptures begin taking shape upon...
Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments, and made four parts, to every soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout...