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...century Japanese garden, complete with arched bridge and 82 tons of imported Japanese stones, created by Japanese-American Sculptor Isamu Noguchi. Mexico's Rufino Tamayo, with his mural of Prometheus, gave viewers one of the few art works with a recognizable theme. Unfortunately, it was set in the rear of the main commission room, visible to delegates only on leaving. Staff members also discovered some unexpected rough spots in the building. Items: no safety hooks for window-washers faced with more than 1,000 floor-to-ceiling glass panes; some hot spots where the sunshades failed to do their...
Sitting in the rear seat of a small Toyopet car, the director of the Imperial Household Board rode last week across the moat surrounding the Imperial Palace and was whisked along Tokyo's streets to the Gotanda district. The car drew up before the high-gabled, ten-room house of Hidesaburo Shoda, president of the Nis-shin Flour Milling Co., the largest in Japan...
...morning last week Venezuela's Communist Party boss. Gustavo Machado, walked into the Caracas house of Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, leading presidential candidate and (until he started campaigning) head of the ruling junta. Half an hour later, smiling from ear to ear. Machado came out with a document. On it was Larrazábal's signature, officially accepting the support of the Communist Party in the Dec. 7 election...
Science Student Rebours lived for a month last summer with a wine-soaked old biffin (rubbish forager) named Jean-not. He shared a filthy hut at the rear of a cafe with Jeannot and the biffin's sidekick, an evil-tempered, alcoholic tramp named Tintin, who has since died of delirium tremens. Rebours' total expense account of about $19.50 included 14 Camembert cheeses, 20 loaves of bread, six helpings of fried potatoes bought to celebrate Jeannot's discovery of some marketable shoes, plus 190 glasses of wine downed to keep up with his tipsy pals. But just...
...Died. Rear Admiral Leonard B. Southerland, U.S.N., 53, commander of aircraft carriers in the Seventh Fleet; in the crash of a helicopter; on Okinawa...