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...Anna Soneson Rahn to honor her first husband, who ran a chain of auto-parts stores. The grants, limited to Protestant graduates of Du-luth's public high schools, will pay half the expenses for pupils of outstanding character and leadership whose grades alone do not stamp them as brilliant...
...Stamp or Pass? The auto industry's hand of welcome to foreign tourists is symbolic of the changing attitude of the U.S. toward travelers from abroad. The 450,000 foreigners visiting the U.S. this year are still only a trickle compared with the flood of 2,000,000 Americans who will wander over foreign countries, but tourism from abroad shows every sign of increasing. Foreigners still bitterly complain of the U.S.'s visa restrictions (no countries in Western Europe have them) and the embarrassing questions asked them by customs officials. "One of them asked me my sexual proclivities...
Romanoff and Juliet (made in Italy for Universal-International) presents Peter Ustinov's hopeful supposition that love, if given a chance, could make the world stop going around with a missile on its shoulder. Ustinov plays the President of Concordia, a postage-due-stamp principality with no prince and no principles. At the U.N., given a chance to cast the tie-breaking vote on an important amendment to an amendment, Ustinov abstains because he cannot understand the diplomatic bafflegab in which it is written. The Russians and the Americans present ultimatums: accept massive aid, or else. But dollars...
...that the U.S. had a moral obligation to try to rescue the survivors. At the same time, most recognized that the ransom payments were humiliating to the U.S. There could be general agreement that the Kennedy Administration had bungled the whole business-because it gave the Government's stamp of approval to the deal, then tried to fog over the official U.S. role in the matter...
...told off a Canadian critic during a recent visit to Toronto when he heard the man belittling U.S. space achievements. "I say to him: 'My friend, Ireland will put a shillelagh into orbit, Israel will put a matzo ball into orbit and Liechtenstein will put a postage stamp into orbit before ever you Canadians put up a mouse.' And do you know, he hit me just for that...