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...meaningful experience, with its special ways and means that are constant through the years. Clocks and calendars plot out their arbitrary separations, as the womb and the tomb surge on unheeding. When o when? man asks, never knowing, ever sowing. But to hatch a bird he must start with an egg, which contains its own inflexible schedule. See man count...
...Chou Enlai, he seemed happy enough just to be the invited guest of a U.S. ally. He went dutifully through his official tour, from laying a wreath at the tomb of Pakistan's founder, Ali Jinnah, to trudging through a large textile plant, where he smiled with satisfaction on discovering that a white-haired employee earned 84? a day. At week's end Chou flew up to Rawalpindi and was warmly greeted by handsome Ayub Khan, wearing a jaunty astrakhan hat. Here the street banners read DOWN WITH INDIAN IMPERIALISM IN KASHMIR, but if they were intended...
...problems of Africa. Ford Motor, whose $6,500,000 company-contributions chest is entirely apart from the Ford Foundation, helps support 17 symphony orchestras and has just doled out $370,000 to restore the sagging Washington and Lee University chapel; the company felt that Robert E. Lee's tomb deserved better surroundings...
...London tobacconist. Actually, Dunhill International, Inc., sells smoking supplies almost as a sideline, is based in Ohio and is run from Houston by an owlish executive who began life as a North Dakota farm boy. Says Chairman Reuben Askanase: "We want to reach customers from the cradle to the tomb." Dunhill nearly succeeds. Beyond its shops from Manhattan to San Francisco, it is a diversified company whose interests range from baby-bottle nipples and baseballs to railroading and book publishing. Right now, its tobacco business is enjoying a puff because of the Surgeon General's report on smoking, which...
...Pope's private meetings with Patriarch Athenagoras I, scuffled boisterously for position while the two religious leaders stared in surprise. Outside the walled Garden of Gethsemane, police had to pull prying newsmen from ladders. One freelance U.S. photographer managed to sneak an automatic, motor-driven camera into the tomb in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where Paul had gone to pray...