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...five-man Uruguayan guard was assigned to each President in addition to the security forces that each head of state brought with him; Brazil's Costa e Silva brought a 20-man detachment, Argentina's Juan Ongania twelve men. Johnson, of course, outdid them all. Scores of Secret Service men moved through the grounds around Beaulieu, the Johnson residence, chattering into walkie-talkies about the whereabouts of "Volunteer," the code name for Johnson. Whenever he moved, they literally shielded him with a wall of bodies; they even decided to remove the 1,430-lb. chandelier that hung over...
...Music Club outdid itself Friday night in presenting a two-hour concert devoted solely to the music of Ives. One is usually lucky enough to hear a program containing but one of his works, which then has to be appreciated in isolation. But here was a veritable smorgasborg of Ives, ranging from the Grieg-like First Quartet (performed by string orchestra) to the more modernistic songs and the enigmatic Unanswered Question for strings, solo trumpet, and concertino of woodwinds. The audience had the rare opportunity of experiencing Ives' music in all its ambivalence: intense and earnest yet caustic and derisive...
...began signaling indignantly to the waiter to demand: "When are we going to get our lunch?" He had only a minimal interest in food and drink. Once, for a lunch in his honor at Le Berkeley restaurant in Paris, the maître d'hôtel outdid himself with a magnificent souffle. Harry was first to dig into the souffle, then stopped his laden fork in mid-air to expound some point that lasted for 20 minutes, while the souffle sagged and expired, and the agonized maître d'hôtel at last, without...
...finally overtaken him. The mighty Met, long the second biggest U.S. company after A.T. & T. in terms of assets, and No. 1 in the insurance field for nearly half a century, lost honors to rival Prudential Insurance Co. of America. By the margin of $83,020,000, the Pru outdid its competitor, ended the year with assets of $23,594,698,000 v. $23,511,678,000 for the Met. Part of the gain was due to the fact that Prudential got a better return on investments...
...convention capital of the U.S." As a centrally located air, rail, and highway hub, it is perhaps the most convenient of U.S. cities. It has fleshpots and fun spots. For expositions it has the Navy Pier, Soldier Field, the International Amphitheater, and Chicago Stadium. In 1960, Chicago outdid itself by building McCormick Place, an edifice alongside Lake Michigan that ran the size of six football fields, with 486,000 square feet of space on three levels. It soon became the site of the U.S.'s biggest trade shows. McCormick Place cost Chicago $35 million to build, and one boast...