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The Crowd Watchers. Today's typical Capri visitor is not the Roman princeling or wealthy foreign eccentric of old; far more often, he is the earnest German tourist who has come over just for the day on the ferry from Naples (fare: 70?) wearing only shorts and sandals, carrying...
The vast old movie palace sat on the Atlantic City boardwalk like an aging burlesque queen living on a Minsky pension. Fading nudes hung in the garish foyer; tired stars peeled off the blue-sky ceiling. The place was so big that a dusty curtain divided it in half, and...
With that meaningful statement of position, the President was off next day for the kind of diplomacy by deeds that he likes best. In keeping with his policy of paying special attention to U.S. neighbors -demonstrated in his meeting in March 1956 with Mexico's Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and...
Specialist Milton Eisenhower). Said Ike: "My position, acting as the President of the United States and with, of course, justice to my own country in mind, is to serve with you as equal partners." It was in that genial atmosphere that the two Presidents discussed the common problems of the...
Visions and other mystical experiences are part of the regular spiritual diet of the 50,000-odd members of the Native American Church, thanks to what they consider a special gift from God: peyote (pronounced pay-oh-tee), a small cactus growing in the valley of the Rio Grande. The...