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Each year some 120,000 mentally retarded children are born in the U.S., the victims of brain injury, prenatal diseases in the mother, or other causes not fully understood. In all the U.S. there are only about 20 centers, such as the pioneering clinic at Manhattan's Flower-Fifth Avenue hospital, where retarded children may get examinations and expert judgment of their possibilities for mental development. Parents fortunate enough to find such a clinic may use its findings to help them decide whether to keep their child at home (as 95% do) or send him to an institution...
...eyed monk," who came to China from India in the 6th century A.D. Imported to Japan in the 12th century, Zen flourished so mightily that it eventually modified most phases of Japanese life, notably in the elaborate code of conduct called Bushido and in the arts of poetry, spinning, flower-arranging, swordplay, archery, and the famed, highly stylized tea ceremony...
...solemnly proposed a toast to "the President of India"). He got his ear bent by loquacious Governor Averell Harriman, who introduced the Prime Minister to pin-neat Tammany Hall Boss Carmine De Sapio ("Carmine-I was just telling the Prime Minister here about you . . ."). His balding head glistening, the flower in his buttonhole lazily depetaling, Nehru wadded his white handkerchief in his hand, rose to deliver softly a slumbrous sermon (viz., leadership must compromise, else it becomes defeated) that was as uninformative as it was long (and brought evident drowsiness to a few of his neighbors, including chief foreign-policy...
...known as the Ministers of Tea and Butter, and the Panchen Lama, the young god-king proceeded across India, usually mounted on a pony-although once he rode an elephant together with Prime Minister Nehru. He was surrounded by a whirl of waving yellow prayer flags, burning incense and flower petals. Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims prostrated themselves before him. and when they could not reach his gown, they touched the hoofs of his pony. Dignified and smiling, his crew cut and glasses making him look (as one American put it) like an exchange student at the University of Southern California...
...GREAT FLOWER BOOKS, 1700-1900, by Sacheverell Sitwell and Wilfrid Blunt (94 pp.; Collins: $50), is one of the most beautiful as well as one of the most expensive books of the year. Its illustrations are the work of the great botanical artists of two centuries, and the flowers stand lushly on pages 1½ ft. high and more than a foot wide. The book derives further elegance from the graceful and handsomely printed essays of Flower Enthusiasts Sitwell and Blunt...