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...Pont was fond of organ music but was also hard of hearing, so he built one of the most formidable organs on earth, incorporating a percussion division, harps, celesta, drums, xylophone, tympani, tambourine, tom-tom. Chinese gong and 11,000 pipes, ranging from pencil size (8,000 vibrations a second) to one 34 feet tall and weighing a long ton (13 vibrations a second). Mrs. du Pont could hear...
...state work. I clearly see that the carrying out of the complicated and responsible duties of Chairman of the Council of Ministers is being negatively affected by my insufficient experience in local work, and the fact that I did not have occasion, in a ministry or some economic organ, to effect direct guidance of individual branches of the national economy...
Understanding & Confetti. In Mexico City the Vice President paid a visit to the renowned Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, where for the first time in memory the organ boomed out The Star-Spangled Banner. Foreign statesmen on official tours usually refrain from visiting the shrine, possibly out of fear of offending the once ardent anticlerical sentiment that still lingers faintly among many educated Mexicans. But at the church, Archbishop Luis María Martínez said to Nixon: "You have shown understanding in coming to this shrine, for it is the heart of Mexico." When Nixon came...
...flounder's eyes pop out of its head and seem to walk around, as nervous and irritable as two monkeys on an organ-grinder's string...
...time administrator of campus programs; and their staff of three secretaries. The present International Committee is actually the outgrowth of a group of Harvard students who in 1947 made foreign contacts, arranged travel programs, and formed a committee under the Student Council. NSA has now replaced the Student Council organ, although volunteers from the College still work with the NSA Commission...