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Diplomats from 51 nations gathered in the flower-bedecked Hall of Mirrors ia Havana's Presidential Palace last week to see General Fulgencio Batista sworn in as President of Cuba. It was the cheerful strongman's third inauguration as Cuba's chief of state. He had made himself President for the first time in 1940, after running the country for seven years as a military dictator. Out of power from 1944 to 1952, he then took over again in a military coup, adopted the title of Provisional President. Last year, eager to drop the "provisional...
...heartbeat and breathing of its inmate can be sent down to earth by radio. Other instruments can report how the spaceborne animal responds to "zero gravity." The most interesting effects of weightlessness, Schaefer admits, are apt to be psychological, and so they will not be observed in full flower until a human has been exposed to zero gravity, but he hopes that even spaceborne mice will develop a few space neuroses...
...pattern embodying the number four or a multiple of it. A precious stone, often equated with the philosopher's stone of the alchemists, can symbolize the Self. The interlaced, banyanlike Tree of Life is often seen to bear a single luminous blossom-perhaps the Orient's Golden Flower, or a Christmas-tree star-which signifies the way of life that is life itself...
...drawing with colored pencils. At six he got his first oils for Christmas, was soon begging his mother to take him to the Louvre and the Museum of Modern Art. There, she remembers, he showed a marked liking for Sisley and Cézanne, and adds: "Thierry also likes flower shops and jewelry stores. If I didn't drag him away, he would stand there for hours gazing at the displays." Thierry thinks painting as simple as his other enthusiasm, soccer. Says he: "I like colors and I like football. I paint the things as I see them. There...
Last week Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith and Ohio's Republican Representative Frances Bolton introduced resolutions asking that the rose be made the national flower. Said the resolutions: "The rose has long been the favorite flower of the American people, who prefer it by a margin of 18 to 1 over any other." It added that the rose has become an "international symbol of peace"-the Peace rose gardens in such places as Jacksonville and Abilene apparently having dimmed the memory of the Wars of the Roses. Mused Mrs. Bolton: "Perhaps the President would issue...