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...Dwight Eisenhower's bedroom is a painting of a Chinese puzzle by Dodge's son, Joseph Jeffers Dodge, curator of the Hyde collection of art at Glens Falls, N.Y. The painting, a gift from Banker Dodge to Ike, represents the friendship between two men of vastly dissimilar backgrounds and personalities. It may also remind the President that Dodge will need all the help he can get in solving one of Washington's most difficult puzzles: how to make a foreign economic policy that is both exciting and practical, one that will imbue the free world with...
...precarious cold-war no man's land boasts no D'Artagnan, but it has its own loose version of the Three Musketeers, a dissimilar threesome who feel a need to share their lonesomeness. Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito, India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Burma's Premier U Nu have, as one leading Yugoslav diplomat insists, "a similarity of outlook on present international developments...
...actually old-style U.S. diplomacy, would avoid trying to bunch dissimilar allies. Of some, it would ask little and expect little; with others, it would go as far as necessity, opportunity and prudence suggest...
Meanwhile, Choreographer Balanchine is busy polishing two brand-new ballets (his 80th and 81st), which will have their premieres later this season. They will give collectors of Balanchine paradoxes fresh material for study, for they are as dissimilar in substance as any two ballets in the man's repertory. One. a severe abstraction, set to the strains of Atonalist Arnold Schoenberg's Opus 34. fits the music so closely that it seems to simplify the score. But the dance movements themselves are so involved that balletomanes will be arguing about it for a long time...
...mean feat to maintain serenity among men of such dissimilar temperaments as India's Nehru and South Africa's Daniel Malan, but Sir Winston Churchill did it-largely by the device of doing most of the talking himself...