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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fearing that the murder might break Lebanon's tenuous internal peace, the Cabinet met in emergency session, attended Moghabghab's state funeral en masse. The army was recalled from maneuvers, dispatched to the Chouf. Ex-President Chamoun berated the government for failing to protect his friend. Chieftain Jumblatt offered his tepid regrets ("It was fate's will...
...printed Nasser's declaration that the U.A.R. would hold the Inge Toft's cargo on the ground (rejected by the U.N. Security Council's decision in 1951) that his country was in "a state of war" with Israel. Beneath the autographed pictures of Nehru, Tito, Chou En-lai and of Hammarskjold himself, Nasser and the Secretary General talked for three hours. Then the Secretary General left, tightlipped, for Geneva...
...Maurice Wertheim bequest (it eventually goes en bloc to the Fogg) is also on view upstairs at the Fogg, where its future owners have complemented the collection's brilliance with a well-balanced, elegantly proportioned, and grandly spaced installation--which looks good from any spot. The 19th century gallery is particularly impressive with Van Gogh's Self Portrait, the primus inter pares of the lot. The brilliant lime-green brushwork which forms a halo around the artist's head is both economical and expressive and the demonic eyes with yellow pupils, the red defining lines of the nose and mouth...
Overzealous & Dishonest. But as time went by, a subtle change came over the agricultural pronouncements. Premier Chou En-lai hinted to the National People's Congress that "output for any particular year may be lower than in the previous year." Meanwhile, the kept press began to erupt with nasty comments about local functionaries who had been "overzealous" and even downright dishonest in their estimates of what their farms were yielding. Kwangtung province, for instance, had produced not 34 million tons of grain, as claimed, but only 30. There had been, said the People's Daily, "little...
...airport. In his party: boyhood pal and associate Grady Wilson, his male secretary and two U.S. businessmen-Printing Tycoon William Jones of Los Angeles, who had persuaded Graham to take the trip, and Charlotte (N.C.) Department Store Owner Henderson Belk, who was taking Bible instruction from Billy en route. Sightseeing with American reporters and an Intourist guide, Billy did a double take at the large gold crosses atop the Kremlin churches. "There is a symbol I never expected to see here," he said. "I hope it has meaning for the future." Russian tourists, gaping at paintings of Jesus Christ...