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...conference of the leaders of any but the friendliest of nations contains two almost insurmountable handicaps. If final decisions are made, they are often hasty and ill-considered, based sometimes on factors as weak as personal bonds. The papier-mache treaty structure of the decade following the first world war and the conferences of the second, all the result of "high-level conversations," are indisputable proof of this handicap. The second grave defect is that meetings at the summit often will produce only propaganda and enmity. In actuality, the forthcoming four-power meeting will not be mainly among the heads...
...diesel locomotive. One big hall was filled with several dozen kinds of motor scooters and motorcycles; other halls displayed delicate glassware and pottery, tractors, sail-and motorboats, house trailers. The Montecatini chemical company showed off its insecticides, fertilizers and aluminum products in an elaborate pavilion decorated with immense papier-machéå insects and lacy scaffoldings festooned with sunbursts of aluminum chairs and kitchen utensils
...yellow-starred flags hung from stores and warehouses, from shacks and villas, from cycle-taxis that darted along uncrowded boulevards. Portraits of Malenkov, Mao and Ho stared out from the stalls of the peddlers. At main intersections there were bamboo arches of triumph, decked with papier-mâché peace doves and slogans that proclaimed "INDEPENDENCE" or "PEACE" or "PRESIDENT HO FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS." No exception, no dissent was permitted in Hanoi's show of joy; nobody forgot to display his enthusiasm, or was too lazy to bother...
...Rome's mammoth Cinecitta, Troy was razed for the third time in 3,000 years as Warner Bros.' two-acre wood and papier-maché reproduction of the ancient city (for Helen of Troy) was 80% destroyed by fire. As betogaed extras battled the blaze, cameras churned away for an hour and a half, leaving Warner's hopeful that it could salvage some usable footage from a $95,000 holocaust...
...where Artist Statsinger conducts her own explorations, near Chicago's crime-blighted Midway, is painted dead white. The low, simple furniture is her own handiwork, and her clothes closet is crammed with carpentry tools. Ranged along the hearth and mantel are geometric little "animals" which she makes of papier-mãché and wire for relaxation...