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...other business last night, the HCUA approved a contribution of $100 to the Toronto Enchange Program. The Council also approved plans for a public sale of abandoned motorcycles for the benefit of the Combined Charities Drive, and proposed a luncheon meeting with members of the administration to soothe strained relations, precipitated by the Corporation's room rent decision...
Looking Down. In between a White House state luncheon, a State Department dinner, and two hours of talks with President Kennedy last week, Paz asked for special delivery U.S. aid for a project that goes far beyond the tin mines. Already Bolivia gets more U.S. aid per capita than any other Latin American nation. Bolivia is so poor (per capita income: $114, only slightly better than Haiti) and so afflicted by nature that the strongest hope for progress rests in a vast scheme to open up fertile eastern lowlands beyond the Andes and relocate large numbers of altiplano Indians...
...Perhaps the grandest of our plans is a restaurant which will serve daily luncheon of exotic foods," the manager said. "We're shooting for Dec. 1 as the date to have this in operation. When we do, we'll serve all the things that no one else in Harvard Square serves--everything from octopus to Shrimp Louis...
...that no cameraman recorded the event. Even the customary rocking-chair photos were ruled out in favor of a stiff shot of Kennedy and Tito facing each other across a conference table. Everything was done according to the book, from the traditional 21-gun salute to a luncheon for 59 guests at the White House-but without notable enthusiasm. After lunch, Tito and Jovanka took in Washington's sights, but the route of their ten-limousine motorcade was kept so secret-to avoid demonstrations-that puzzled pedestrians along the way asked, "Who is it?" No Yugoslav flags decorated...
...Waldorf-Astoria, more than 1,000 people jammed the Grand Ballroom for an Overseas Press Club luncheon, with women in mink heavily outnumbering the working newsmen. "Is she 40?" asked one matron, marveling at the youthful appearance of the tiny figure on the dais. "I can't believe it." (She is 39.) Commented another, "You don't have nails like that and do much around the house...