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Jawaharlal Nehru and his Indians seemed just as anxious to please. Nehru had run 2,500 friends of Red China out to the airport in 50 chartered buses so they could shower Chou with rose petals and cry out "Chin Hind bhai bhai" (Chinese and Indians are brothers, brothers) as the black-garbed Communist walked down the ramp. Nehru had Chou garlanded with flowers, led him around a guard of honor...
...appearance on sponsored sports shows. Said Kiner: "It seems every time you turn around someone is asking you to go on his show. We're not trying to make this a lucrative sideline. But a player on a hot day likes to take a shower or change uniforms or just rest...
...Morningside Heights enclosed by Union's grey Gothic buildings, Pit Van Dusen lives the fragmented and busy life of a corporation president, multiple board member, personal counselor and theologian. His day begins in his sunny, comfortable, ten-room apartment at 7:15 with a hot (then cold) shower, and ends there around midnight with a bedtime glass of ginger ale and milk. The period between is a hectic but orderly scramble of board meetings (he is a trustee of ten educational institutions, plus the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board), lectures, student interviews and faculty meetings...
King of Hearts (by Jean Kerr & Eleanor Brooke) sends up a shower of witty sparks over a rather flat and meager landscape. A satiric farce, it concerns a megalomaniac cartoonist (Donald Cook) who regards his comic strips as profounder than the Wise Books of the East, and himself as a sort of Einstein with sex appeal. He is exhibited in varied but always-voluble relation to an assistant (Jackie Cooper), an interviewer, a syndicate chief (David Lewis), a small boy he adopts (Rex Thompson) and a fiancée (Cloris Leachman) whose romantic eyes are opened by, among other things...
...known for many years, that the bedpan is more trouble than it's worth, won official medical sanction. "It requires twice as much energy to use it as it does to walk to the bathroom," said Manhattan's Dr. Howard A. Rusk, rehabilitation expert. Also, taking a shower consumes four times as much energy as using...