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...past, Sarit, Phoumi's older cousin, also challenged the Kennedy administration's plan for a neutral Laos, but now he has apparently changed his mind. Declared a Thai government spokesman even before Phoumi arrived: "The U.S. must have considered all reasons and circumstances before reaching such a decision . . . If evil consequences arise later, the U.S. will not ignore its responsibility and will help Laos...
While Harvard's President (1869-1909) Charles W. Eliot won renown in Boston, his first cousin pioneered in St. Louis. The Rev. William Greenleaf Eliot, who had toiled in a post office dead-letter department before becoming a Unitarian minister, founded not only St. Louis' first Unitarian church and Washington University but also an influential family; among his grandsons is T. S. Eliot. Last week, fittingly enough, Washington University (fulltime enrollment: 6,000) named a Boston Eliot as its twelfth chancellor. He is Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, grandson of Charles W. and fifth cousin of Poet...
...thirds of the purchase price, which gives it full possession. By order of the mayor, this week is "Rembrandt for Denver Week." The painting was done around 1632, one year after Rembrandt moved to Amsterdam. He took lodgings with a gentleman named Hendrick van Uylenburgh, whose orphaned young cousin Saskia charmed him. Saskia was of patrician background (her father had been a burgomaster), but the miller's son from Leiden successfully wooed her, and the two were married in 1634. Rembrandt painted Saskia several times, often in the role of a mythological heroine. As in many of his early...
...senate, a cardinal advises the Pope on church policy, helps run the Vatican's huge bureaucracy, and will elect one of his number to the papacy when John XXIII dies. But he is also a prince; letters to him from Catholic kings are properly addressed "Dear Cousin...
Fallen, Arch. Deftly and with good humor, the author describes four representative adventures; they show "Isherwood" through the years discarding one pose after another, like a man trying on dressing gowns. At 23, the hero is a rather insensitive Sensitive Young Author. Invited to visit a "cousin" named Lancaster who is a shipping executive in Hamburg, the young man has a perfectly hideous time. His notion of himself as Jack the Philistine Killer falls comically to pieces when he finds himself fascinated by Lancaster's boundless, vulgar energy...