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...months in 1953, after President James B. Conant left to become U.S. High Commissioner to Germany and before President Pusey assumed office, Mr. Coolidge served on a four-man committee which exercised the functions of President. He was also designated Acting President during Pusey's extended visit to the Orient...
During the 49 days spent in 18 ports of call, the students went on field trips. Dena Lambie, 22, of Menlo Park, Calif., is rapturous over discovering the Orient and swimming with new-found Egyptian friends in the Nile. "I skied in Japan, saw the bullfights in Spain, and went Honda riding in Greece," recalls Janice Cope, 22, of Fresno, Calif. Manila offered the students a cockfight, Ceylon a performance by the Kandyan dancers. The semester trip, plus 17 course credits, cost $2,500 to $3,000, depending on accommodations...
...Ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge and Senate Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois. Lodge called such a course "the most dangerous and imprudent" the U.S. could take and equated it with "getting out of West Berlin." Dirksen foresaw that "the rank of the United States in the Orient would plummet" if the U.S. pulled...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: THREE LITTLE LITURGIES OF THE DIVINE PRESENCE (Columbia). Scored for soprano chorus, strings, and a miscellany of soundmakers including a vibraphone, Chinese cymbals, gongs and the electronic instrument called Ondes Martenot, this 20-year-old work is a reminder of Messiaen's Orient-tilted talents. Like a preacher shaking his fist, the French composer uses wild, sliding sounds, surprise rhythms, and his own effusive text to insist that God is omnipresent. Leonard...
...Year of the Dragon in the Orient, but along Madison Avenue 1964 has clearly become the Year of the Tiger. From elephants to foxes, animals have long helped admen to peddle their wares, but the tiger has roared onto the advertising scene with irresistible force, turning up as a prop for everything from rented autos to hair oil. Says Martin Baker, an account executive for Doyle Dane Bernbach: "It's almost as if ads are giving up sex for tigers...