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Some four million visitors (300,000 last year) have toured Longwood, admired the sunken gardens, marbled conservatory, the great crystal chandeliers and thousands of blooming plants (flowers are replaced before wilting). Hereafter, the pleasure which visitors take in the agapanthus and the vanilla vines will grow or shrink (depending on individual personality and politics) with the thought of that $60 million. Longwood's taxexempt, gilt-edged lilies will toil not, nor spin; they may invite some musing future Coolidge to murmur: "Some shareholders...
...Dock. So that passengers will no longer have to cross rainswept airstrips between airplane and terminal, Whiting Corp. has installed a new, covered loading platform for passengers and luggage at New York International Airport. After the planes land, they are taxied onto trucks on sunken tracks, then towed by an electric winch until flush with the terminal landing and permanent conveyor belt for baggage. Price: about...
Correspondent Welles* found the archbishop in a sunken garden near Deering Library, waiting with other council officials to receive President Eisenhower. Leaning over the garden wall, Welles hailed Bishop Oxnam, whom he had met several years before, and said that he wanted to explain to the archbishop that TIME was planning to do a cover story on him. The archbishop came to the wall and invited Welles into the garden. Replied Welles: "The Secret Service won't let me come down there, but if Your Grace will play Romeo to my Juliet, perhaps we can discuss an interview date...
Every now & then, as he goes self-importantly about his business, the American male tends to underestimate the power of his women. He forgets that they helped give him Prohibition and the sunken living room, that they choose his ties and the pictures on his wall, that they make him buy orchid corsages and join the Book-of-the-Month Club. Whenever this male forgetfulness about the real balance of power threatens to become habitual, the women tacitly band together to reassert their authority. They have just done so again by taking a pudgy, wavy-haired pianist from Milwaukee...
...glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome have been pretty well picked over on dry land. But under the surface of the Mediterranean, says Archeologist Philippe Diolé, lie untold sunken deposits of classical history and art. In a new book, 4,000 Years Under the Sea (Messner; $4.50), Diolé tells how diving archeologists are just beginning to exploit the submarine digging grounds...