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...visit in February. President Eisenhower was reminded of "our own decision many years ago to move the capital of our fledgling nation from Philadelphia." But in the move to Washington in 1800, only 126 bureaucrats made the trek by coach and horseback, while state papers went by ship. Brasilia will have 120,000 citizens next week and 500,000 within ten years. No new capital-Ankara, Canberra or New Delhi-compares with it for scope and speed...
...statement about Gabriele D'Annunzio is an understatement. Poets these days tend to be an almost muted species haunted by the dread that they may be understood by nonpractitioners of their private art. They do not. as did D'Annunzio. ride naked on horseback into the surf and don a purple cloak as a bathrobe, or drink wine from a virgin's skull...
...Vitry, who has ten children ranging from 16 to 35 (none of whom joined Pechiney), likes to ride horseback or listen to classical music with them and his wife at their ten-room apartment near the Etoile. Like many other executives, he scorns the head office as a "center of un-productivity," spends two or three months a year traveling over the world inspecting Pechiney's plants...
...many years since I rode horseback through field and wood or performed modest soldierly duties," wrote Switzerland's famed, 73-year-old Protestant Theologian Karl Barth* recently in the Christian Century. "Climbing uphill no longer tempts me. And even my work pace at the desk has become perceptibly slower. [But] air, water, substantial nourishment and moderate exercise still help me to keep my vigor; and even my faithful pipe still agrees rather well with me." Another sign of youthfulness that Septuagenarian Barth might have added is his continuing ability to change his mind...
...prestige of Harvard University has been used to promote a destructive ideology," it charges. Followers of the doctrine include "the whole gamut of the totalitarian world. Socialists, Nazis, Fascists, Argentine Peronistas, followers of Nehru and those in the United States who yearn for a 'man on horseback' have embraced the socio-economic thinking of Keynes...