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...atmospherics were significant. Aside from showing the flag with a flourish, Nixon demonstrated again the wide reach of his office and of U.S. policy. His entrée to the spiritual fortress that is the Vatican, the facility with which he dealt with a Communist ruler in Belgrade and a Falangist in Madrid, as well as formal allies in Rome and London-all combined to convey a sense of healthy diversity. Massive television coverage showed him not only in formal association with world leaders but in human communication with ordinary citizens. Grinning, standing on a car, his arms flung...
...most intimate friends could be composed of the likes of Averell Harriman and Sammy Davis Jr., Walter Lippmann and Frankie Sinatra, William Baldwin, James Baldwin, Tallulah Bankhead and the Marquis and Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. Yet the fact is that he possesses an almost endless entrée into the world of the great and the glamorous; as he modestly puts it: "I have an awful lot of friends all over the world...
...Economic Community important enough to appoint ambassadors to represent them at the EEC in Brussels, and Common Market President Walter Hallstein has long been accustomed to greeting the emissaries in style. He arranged for a red carpet all the way to the curb of 23 Avenue de la Joyeuse Entrée when a new ambassador presented his credentials; the newcomer was then whisked by private elevator to Hallstein's eighth-floor suite, and, after a striped-pants ceremony, Hallstein would break out champagne. It was just what any head of state would do, but it made the Biggest...
...longer news; he has been involved in three and lost them all. Casper did it spectacularly. Once the "fat young man" of the pro tour, now slimmed down 45 Ibs. (to 180 Ibs. on his 5-ft. 11-in. frame) on an antiallergy diet that includes such entrées as buffalo steak and mooseburgers, Billy was converted to Mormonism last Jan. 1 and spent the night before the play-off attending a church "fireside" 35 miles from San Francisco. Next day he fired his fourth subpar round of the tournament-a one under 69-to beat Palmer by four...
...following year, after earning his doctorate from Leiden, Schmidt won one of the greatest prizes available to a talented young astronomer: a Carnegie Institution fellowship. With it he gained entrée into the stimulating atmosphere of Pasadena's California Institute of Technology, and access to the fabulous astronomical complex in Southern California. There, all within easy driving distance of Los Angeles, the world's greatest telescopes point skyward. Atop Mount Palomar is the 200-in. Hale telescope and a 48-in. Schmidt (no relation) wide-angle scope. On Mount Wilson is a 100-in. telescope...