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...located in an entire wing of the Paguidas-Haidemenos Hotel ("hot and cold running water"), and the job was nominally "assistant cultural attache." The duties were far more interesting than mere lecturing on Sung poetry and Ming pottery. Every night, for instance, exciting home movies were shown to select audiences brought in from the Congo and other African countries. The noise on the sound track was largely machine-gun fire and bomb explosions, but that was to be expected, since Peking's men were giving the Africans a short course in revolution...
...museum, and they came to the opening to purr over their work. Miró built a cluster of giant terra-cotta and cement sculptures, including a huge green bird, a giant pitchfork, and a Miró-size ceramic egg in a pool. As the opening festivities for 150 select guests wore on into the flower-scented twilight, he could not tear himself away and sat on a wall, clucking like a proud hen: "Look at that egg! It's the largest egg in the world...
...President of the National Medical Association proposed Monday that Harvard select a Negro to be its next president...
...create a history has "traced" the beginning of the order to A.D. 644, when the Prophet Mohammed's son-in-law, Kalif Alee (whose name be praised!), founded a "vigilance committee" to dole out punishment for crimes not already covered by existing laws. The committee became a select group of noblemen, presumably above reproach and therefore demonstrably better than other men. They evolved elaborate rituals and ceremonies. As luck would have it, a copy of the ritual (in translation) wandered slowly across the vast Near Eastern deserts to America, where it fell, like manna from heaven (Mecca, anyway), into...
...last week released record industrial production figures for June, and President Johnson personally announced "notable advances" for the second quarter in gross national product (a new record), nonfarm employment (another new record), and personal income. But the tide does not seem to be lifting everyone equally, and the Senate Select Committee on Small Business has just produced another, less pleasant nautical metaphor. As the committee sees it, U.S. small business is "floundering in the backwash" of the speeding economy, failing for the first time in modern business history to share proportionately in the nation's prosperity...