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...head of the U.S. negotiating team in Paris, Averell Harriman faces the most delicate and grueling test of his 34-year career in Government service. President Kennedy once remarked that the lean, lantern-jawed New York millionaire had held "as many important jobs as any man in our history," with the possible exception of John Quincy Adams.* At 76, Harriman is hard of hearing, but his vigor of mind and body remain unimpaired-and perhaps a touch of deafness might even help in talks that are likely to drone on for months, perhaps years...
...style education without the need for transcontinental travel. Today, Mills accents music, art, dance and drama, boasts some fine Victorian architecture, lets its girls enforce their own honor code in exams and conduct, and observes such quaint traditions as the seniors' tearful last tour of the campus by lantern light, pausing at sites they want to remember...
...darkroom came what may really be the vital art of the moment. Out of the spiritualist's dim salon has emerged what may prove to be tomorrow's scientific revolution. In reaching a toe-hold, each discipline has sacrificed a measure of color and excitement: gone are the horrific lantern shows of the early photographer-magicians, gone too the emphasis psychic investigators once placed on communication with disembodied spirits from the "other side." Art photography graces a hundred glossy magazines on a million polished coffee tables, and down at Duke, Dr. J.B. Rhine (now respectable: his science has even acquired...
...invited dignitaries and 500,000 Roman Catholics celebrated the consecration of Liverpool's new Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King on Whitsunday. Constructed over the past 41 years at a cost of $11,200,000, the cone-shaped cathedral in concrete rises to a stately stained-glass lantern tower capped with a crown of finials, which lights up at night atop one of Liverpool's two hills. The other hill, half a mile away, is already topped by the Gothic spires of the Anglican cathedral...
...Drivers were forced to leave cars and buses to peer closely at street signs to find out where they were. Policemen strapped on respiratory masks. The Manchester Guardian reported that London's midday sun "hung sulkily in the dirty sky with no more radiance than an unlit Chinese lantern...