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...Dulles drove home their point that the full resources-not just armies and weapons-of all free nations must be marshaled against Communism. They found in Harold Macmillan a man of like mind. ("Such a conference," said one of the participants, "never would have been possible with either Anthony Eden or Winston Churchill.") And as the men at the Washington conference talked, they found their spirits surging with enthusiasm to make the total alliance a reality...
Many years ago some Indians were playing rugby in the Garden of Eden with a Harvard man who insisted upon carrying the ball and kicking extra points. Thus American football, new and exciting, came into being. As spectator crowds got bigger and bigger, another Harvard man decided to sell tickets and the HAA ticket office was born. Eventually both enterprises became very complicated institutions...
...network). Skillfully cutting in films and slides on cue, the Prince rambled on about anything and everything. "I'm not surprised it was forbidden," he said, describing the horrid taste of a vegetable believed by those in the Seychelles Islands to be the original forbidden fruit of Eden. "They must have had a good stiff neck in the morning," he reflected on some New Guinea native dancers. And for one indifferent shot of a penguin rookery, he apologized: "I really had to include this because I think it's the only one of the lot that I took...
While Levittown, Long Island, suburbia's assembly-line Eden, celebrated its tenth birthday with fireworks, a 75-float parade, a midget football game and a performance of John Millington Synge's Riders to the Sea, William Levitt, the ringtailed realtor who started it all, celebrated in his own way. For $1,750,000 he bought Belair, the 2,226-acre Maryland estate of the late William Woodward Jr. Purpose: more diapers and down payments in a new, 5,000-castle Levittown...
...certain that if the Assembly continues to take its decisions on grounds of enmity, opportunism, or purely jealousy and petulance, the whole structure may be brought to nothing." As a man who stoutly backed the ill-fated Egyptian adventure of his successor Sir Anthony Eden, Churchill to this day (like many Britons) deplores the part the U.N. played in halting the war short of victory, and he has always thought it unrealistic to give as much weight to the opinions of a small power as to a large. Said Churchill: "The shape of the U.N. has changed greatly from...