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...airport to greet him was his old pal of the Cuban missile crisis last fall, Anastas Mikoyan. Waiting for him in Moscow was Nikita Khrushchev, who promised to show him off to his comrades in a tumultuous May Day celebration this week...
Politically, Luxembourg is a family-style democracy in which street cleaners greet the Prime Minister by his first name. If a citizen gets mad at the government, he has only to dial 219-61 to hear a telephone operator reply, "The Government," and direct him promptly to the appropriate official. For economy's sake, virtually every member of the Cabinet runs at least two ministries. Premier Pierre Werner, 49, who is also Minister of Finance, is a genial, tireless Christian Socialist who bustles around the country in an ancient official Buick as concernedly as if the Grand Duchy...
...Spare HIM, Take Me," and Conrad (Jesse Pearson) rides his motorcycle, rough-tired, right up the steps of the courthouse square, where a welcoming committee of bobby-soxed votaries is waiting to recite its oath: "I pledge allegiance to Conrad Birdie and to the United States of America." Shrieks greet the sight of his gold lame riding habit, and when he begins to sing Honestly Sincere, even the mayor's wife folds into gatelegged collapse. Pearson's 6-ft. 3-in. frame lacks the necessary baby fat for a first-class ribbing of the plot's obvious...
Only after everyone is seated does Donald H. Fleming, Professor of History, stride briskly into Emerson D to deliver his lectures on American thought. He unwinds his scarf with a flourish, and jauntily waves his acknowledgement to the friendly hisses or applause with which his History 169 students often greet him. When this urbane figure turns to a discussion of intellectual history, he gives a dramatic, as well as an historical, interpretation of the men treated in the course. Reading from original sources, he tries to convey the sarcasm of H.L. Mencken, the vitality of Theodore Roosevelt, or the pomposity...
...Palace." The multijetted fountain in the reception hall sounds like "a toilet permanently out of order," the ambassador grumbles. But when the fountain is turned off, the small pool is hardly noticeable. On one occasion, a U.S. colonel marched straight through it without breaking stride on his way to greet Galbraith, standing at the other side. Since then, the perimeter of the pool has been marked with potted plants...