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After a photographer's apprenticeship in Boston, Armenian-born Yousuf Karsh set up his own portrait studio in Ottawa because he yearned to photograph prominent men. Now a courtly 51, Karsh of Ottawa is as renowned as most of his subjects. Last week the Canadian capital paid the world's foremost portrait photographer the unusual compliment of an exhibition at the National Gallery...
...miles a year keeping up with the non-Joneses. "I really hate work," he says, "but what keeps a photographer good and modest is his dedication to his work." Last August Karsh was just sitting down with a dinner party of illustrious scientists and educators in his home, near Ottawa, when he received a call from Washington. "There were enough brains in my home to have split an atom. But I had to get my picture." Karsh excused himself, hurried to Washington, where he had appointments to photograph Vice President Nixon and Democratic Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy. Nixon missed...
...subject. "I live in utter agony after I have taken the picture. I know there are so many things I could have done to make it better, but I am exhausted." His fees: $600 in the U.S., $200 for Ottawans, $300 for anyone who comes from elsewhere to Ottawa...
Many Cuban career diplomats, dismayed by Castro's use of embassies for revolution, have either quit or invited purging. Out so far: at least a dozen officers, including the ambassadors to Bonn, London, Ottawa, Bern, Rome, San Salvador. Last week Havana's vice consul in Los Angeles, a diplomat for 18 years, proudly resigned from "Castro Brothers & Co., exclusive representatives of Moscow and Peking in America...
...Eccles confession hit Ottawa in the midst of a campaign by a small band of Socialist M.P.s to end parliamentary divorces. They have filibustered on every divorce bill before the House this session, hoping to force a change in the law. A House subcommittee summoned the cast of the Eccles case to Ottawa for a hearing. The verdict: Lise Eccles' divorce was denied, and the case was turned over to Mounties for possible prosecution for collusion and perjury. A cry is now being heard that Parliament should disentangle itself from divorce entirely and turn over its jurisdiction...