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Lunch on the Mountain. At the last minute, on request of the Chinese Nationalists, Dulles added Formosa to his schedule. His Constellation made several passes at the field before the pilot was able to find a way down to the runway through the mist. Foreign Minister George Yeh met Dulles at planeside, escorted him to Taipei's City Hall for formal signing of the treaty that binds the U.S. to defend Formosa and the Pescadores from attack. Then Dulles was driven out to Grass Mountain, 20 minutes from Taipei, for luncheon with the Generalissimo and Madame Chiang...
...Eisenhower were to conclude that the islands are essential to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores, then they might be defended. Chiang was bitterly disappointed and did not bother to see Dulles to the door when the luncheon was over. That evening Dulles took off through the same mist, homeward-bound, to make his report to the President and by TV to the nation...
...They were a threat not only to the church, but also to the well-being of society at large . . . Let's not advertise the Albigensians as simon-pure Christians, which they were not, at least in principle. A fraternal prayer for Father Du bois, a "shepherd in the mist." (THE REV.) HENRY P. COSGROVE, J.C.D...
...Mist of Beer...
Several of the more exuberant participants in the little party that followed the official entertainment were roughly escorted to the door in a mist of beer. One proctor, with damp stains on his rain-coat, boasted, "I've got five bursar's cards...