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...streets (v. 1,500,000 who turned out for Jack and Jackie Kennedy in 1962). Standing in his black Mercedes convertible, De Gaulle was showered with vivas and confetti. Everywhere, in shop windows, in newspapers, on billboards, portraits of De Gaulle beamed back at the visitor. They ranged from thumbnail-size De Gaulles on 1,000,000 commemorative stamps to a five-story likeness hung in Mexico City's Plaza de la Constituci...
...dresses endlessly for an imaginary dinner date with a famous British actor. A wholesome vicar's daughter gives elocution lessons and keeps the rafters ringing at odd moments with bits of Byron and snatches of Shakespeare. "Joanna Childe," the author says, describing the girl in one of those thumbnail assessments that keep her books blessedly brief, "had a good intelligence and strong obscure emotions . . . she loved poetry rather as it might be assumed a cat loves birds...
...fulltime astrologers and about 100,000 part-timers who collect an estimated $100 million a year from among the more than 10 million true believers (80% of them female). Nearly 1,000 U.S. newspapers, with a daily circulation of some 40 million, carry astrological columns with such thumbnail profundities as: "Leo (July 22 to August 21) : Avoid investing unwisely or trying to outdo the experts when you have not had sufficient practice or knowledge. Listen intently instead. Stand up under pressure admirably...
...disarmament, nuclear testing and foreign trade. At talk's end, Kennedy apologized for having let it run too long. "No," said his guest, "our people are used to reading long stories." Talking later to U.S. newsmen, Adzhubei remained in good humor. The 37-year-old editor gave a thumbnail sketch of himself: "According to the American doctrine, I met the pretty daughter of the man who was to become Premier. That's how my career started." He bristled at suggestions that his interview would be cropped in Izvestia, promised it would run in full, probably this week...
...surprise dinner, Acting President Charles A. Coolidge '17 presented Aiken with a silver model of Mark I, the world's first such computer, which Aiken helped to design. The model accurately represents the mammoth Mark I--down to tiny flashing panel lights and thumbnail-sized electric typewriter with keys and silver ribbons...