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...make a good team," Khanh cracked to McNamara at one point. When the pair were airlifted by helicopter into Hoa Hao, a thatch-roofed village near the Cambodian border and seat of the important Buddhist sect which bears its name, McNamara and Khanh set off on foot for the shrine which once was home of the Hoa Hao sect's late founder. Standing in its silk-bedecked interior, McNamara placed both hands before his chest in the Bud dhist attitude of prayer and bowed. Afterward, the visitors stood beaming as Khanh presented a U.S.-made hearing...
...good that it seemed unlikely that the author could write another at the same level. A second surprise is that no cult has gathered since Wallant's death. Ordinarily, the work of a brilliant and relatively unknown writer would, at his death, quickly be walled into a shrine and suffused with critical incense, as happened to Nathanael West. But West raged at chaos, and rage can be read as hate, which is a suitable cult emotion. Wallant's transcendent gift was for compassion, and in his writing compassion is so clear and so strong that no willful misreading...
...damaged Alliance, Johnson hopes to hold bilateral talks in Washington next year with Erhard, Douglas-Home and De Gaulle. But the French are already beginning to hint that since De Gaulle was just in the U.S., Johnson ought to visit Paris-presumably as a pilgrim to the Delphic shrine...
...There was some family feeling that the President should be with his infant son Patrick in the family plot at Brookline, Mass. Cardinal Cushing advised against this: the plot, he said, was much too small to accommodate all the thousands who would surely want to visit it as a shrine. Jackie herself thought that Brookline would be too out of the way. Said she: "He really belongs to the country as a whole...
...Hindu temple on the Thailand-Cambodia border belonged to Cambodia, and Thailand was obliged to withdraw the armed guards that it had stationed at the shrine...