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...three days last week the President met with Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent amid such scenes of studied informality and good neighborliness. The meeting was held not in Washington but in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., a watering place set amid the Alleghenies. There was no agenda, little protocol. A U.S. participant described one session of the talks...
...SECRETS OF CAROLINE CniRiE (309 pp.)-Cecil Saint-Laurent-Crown...
...reason is that though the Caroline novels are blatantly aphrodisiacal in intent, they are more than mere buff in content. Author Cecil Saint-Laurent is a serious historian as well as an able hack...
...Occupied Europe (1792-1815). Consequently, when he makes Caroline an eyewitness to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, he knows what that eyeful was. Every page of Secrets is dotted with the stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach most schoolboys a lot more than they would get from most textbooks. Unfortunately, the frequent...
...Invited Canadian Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines to a meeting in Washington next month. (Both St. Laurent and Ruiz Cortines accepted, the latter subject to approval of the Mexican Congress...