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...when the Orient Express chugged proudly off on its maiden trip to Constantinople in 1883. On that first trip, the 2,000-odd miles took six days and six hours, what with all the border ceremonies and crowds along the track.* The seats had velvet covers topped by Brussels lace, and lush damask .curtains hung from the windows; the fittings were of solid oak and mahogany; on the outside of every car was a coat of arms and the proud gold lettering, "Les Grands Express Européens." Hand-cut glass separated the sleeping compartment from the outside aisle...
Into Rome's grandiose Palazzo dei Congressi one day last week poured 1,400 purposeful women from 41 nations. Blonde-tressed Norwegians in embroidered blue skirts mingled with black-haired Ghanaians in flowing brown and gold robes. Swiss Frauen sported delicate lace caps, and Icelanders regally balanced gold diadems with trailing white veils. Here and there through the colorful throng could be seen the somber black habit of a nun. Remarkably little feminine chatter disturbed the solemnity of the occasion: the twelfth International Congress of Midwives...
...major disappointment was at De Gaulle's failure to produce any new ideas for ending the Algerian fighting. At week's end, as the General moved slowly through Britanny on one of his periodic tours to test his hold over the French people, bagpipes skirled, women in lace caps strained to grasp his hand, and adulatory crowds joined him in emotional mass renditions of the Marseillaise. But back in Paris sobersided Le Monde sadly warned: "France has no chance of playing the role she legitimately claims in the world as long as this wound of Algeria is open...
...past 13 years Gehlen has been established in the village of Pullach, some five miles from Munich, in a tree-shaded compound on the banks of the Isar River. Surrounded by a 10-ft. concrete wall, the compound looks like a housing development, with neat lawns and flower beds, lace-curtained villas and administration buildings. At each entrance are electrically operated sliding doors of steel mesh, with sentry boxes manned by armed and uniformed guards. Gehlen's own headquarters are separately enclosed by a steel fence, and his paneled, second-floor office contains only one symbol of his profession...
...goods shipped to the airport or ship, or directly to the U.S. In Switzerland, the tourist can cut about 15% off the list price of watches by some haggling (a reliable 17-jewel watch costs about $25, a self-winding watch about $40). In Belgium, best buys are handmade lace in Bruges (at Durein) or Brussels (at Diane Dirgent), hunting rifles from Bury Donckier in Liege and cut diamonds in Antwerp, where they sell for 30% to 50% less than in New York. Holland has antique auctions in Amsterdam and at Delft (from Aug. 24 to Sept. 14), specializing...