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...world's greatest soccer player, Brazil's national hero and one of the highest-paid professional athletes ($152,000 in salary), Pele could afford to be magnanimous. He would be happy, he said, to lend some parts of his uniform to an upcoming soccer exhibit in London. On second thought, though, no sense in taking chances with garments of such inestimable symbolic value. Pele insisted they would have to insure them...
...common sense would know that the 15 of us are much too busy to read the manuscripts the students send in." And Cerf again, on mail-order selling in general: "The crux of it is a very hard sales pitch, an appeal to the gullible." Then why does he lend his name to the school's hard-sell proposition? "Frankly, if you must know, I'm an awful ham -I love to see my name in the papers...
...emissary to Cairo to wangle a truly representative selection for a tour of the U.S. Rathbone got the cooperation of the Metropolitan in New York and later the Los Angeles County Museum to share the huge expenses of shipment and insurance. Last year Egyptian authorities finally agreed to lend 43 pieces. It would have been the greatest Egyptian show ever...
...Taylor mission proved useful; it may, for instance, have muted Vatican criticism of the U.S. lend-lease program to the Soviet Union. Yet experts on Vatican diplomacy insist that only through continuous representation, constantly keeping its national viewpoint before the Pope, can a nation reap any real benefit from Vatican representation. France, for instance, apparently strives assiduously to explain to the Vatican its position on the Middle East crisis in the hope of avoiding any public papal criticism. "You don't send a letter explaining or have some fellow stop by," argues Father Robert Graham, author of the book...
...Explorations. To assemble it, Schneider spent two years wheedling the best pictures from U.S. and European collections. He persuaded Leningrad's Hermitage Museum to lend twelve paintings seldom seen by Westerners. He got eight-even less familiar -from Moscow's Pushkin Museum. Rarest of all, he has teased out of several French private collections a score of paintings that have never before been publicly exhibited...