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...physical city seems to shift and change under the impetus of the new activity. Throughout London, wreckers and city planners are at work. Once a horizontal city with a skyline dominated by Mary Poppins' chimney pots, London is now shot through with skyscrapers, including the 30-story London Hilton and the 620-ft. London post office tower. Westminster Abbey's statues and memorial have been newly cleaned and painted, and the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral is undergoing a $420,000 polishing that will return it to the splendor envisioned by Sir Christopher Wren-and, hopefully...
...Charles de Gaulle and the Sino-Soviet split. Lyndon Johnson, who had hoped that the subject might vanish of its own accord, now found himself devoting an extraordinary amount of time to talking and thinking about it. "I remember," he told a convention of municipal officials at the Washington Hilton Hotel, "when you couldn't walk into any hostess's home without them saying, 'What do you think about McCarthy?' A month ago, it was 'What do you think about the pause?' Now it is 'What do you think about inflation...
...dinner last month, Washington has not quite known just where he will turn up next. He unexpectedly stayed for Mrs. Gandhi's black-tie dinner at the Indian embassy. Later in the week he popped over to a United Service Organizations dinner for Bob Hope at the Washington Hilton, presented the comedian with a plaque commending him for his entertainment of U.S. servicemen. "It's nice to be here in Washington," said Hope, "or, as the Republicans call it, Camp Runamuck. It's nice to be here in Birdland." The President was equal to the occasion. Hope...
...agreed to act as plaintiff in a shareholder's suit alleging fraud. Since Rule 23 (b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires that "the complaint shall be verified by oath," she swore to her belief in the truth of its contents before a notary public. Skeptical, Hilton's lawyers forced Mrs. Surowitz to take the stand in a Chicago federal district court to prove her understanding of all the details in her 60-page complaint. Naturally, she flunked the quiz. Calling it "a sham," the judge dismissed the suit. Because Mrs. Surowitz was "wholly ignorant...
...road to Laredo has been lined with weird detours. After leaving Harvard, Leary tried to continue his experiments near Acapulco, Mexico, where he opened a sort of Hallucination Hilton in an old resort hotel. He offered to expand consciousnesses at the rate of $200 a month and $6 per expansion; the Mexican government expelled him after two months. He tried unsuccessfully to reopen in the Caribbean, finally established something called the Castalia Foundation on a 3,000-acre estate in Millbrook, N.Y., near Vassar and Bennett colleges. Along the way, he had become very much a religious mystic; the four...