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...head man's illnesses. Khrushchev had just spent two weeks in the tropical heat of Indonesia, where he had shown clear signs of weariness, and then had returned to wintry Moscow. But San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher, who carried on an eight-hour conversational joust with the 65-year-old Khrushchev at the Kremlin last week, came away saying that Khrushchev "looked as if he would like to go on for another eight hours." If and when Khrushchev's French trip was laid on again, it would undoubtedly be more modest-fewer towns, fewer banquets...
Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart junketed into the Dominican Republic, paid "great tribute" to Dictator Rafael Trujillo for his "fight against Communism." Then he told Ciudad Trujillo businessmen about an experience of his as a freshman Senator. Tangling jovially with the late Alben Berkley in a private joust, Capehart twitted the then Democratic Senator from Kentucky: "If it hadn't been for the Ohio River, there wouldn't be any Kentucky. It would all have been Indiana." Confidentially responded future Veep Barkley: "Yes, and if that were true, I would have been the Senator...
...prove the point, the conference started off with a thwacking round-table joust. Sensing that the Russians wanted the ministers to sit at a round table so that the Germans could the more easily join them on an equal basis, the Westerners insisted cagily on a square table: four sides, four powers. Instead of beginning their proceedings on time, the four ministers found themselves at the town house of Britain's Selwyn Lloyd, making sketch after sketch of possible seating arrangements on little scraps of yellow paper...
...named the Grail, is offered to the citizen who contributes the best ideas to the festival, so all Britain is abuzz with ludicrous suggestions: "Demands to restore the pillory; to rebuild horse-troughs; proposals that women should wear wimples in August; that the Duke of Edinburgh should open a Joust in full armour." Around Lord Illius himself clot applauding yes men, tame academics and cultural parasites, all out to dazzle the bored and lonely multitude...
...Once and Future King, by T. H. White. Good King Arthur's golden knights joust again in this loving and witty retelling of the old tale...