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...goods at Macy's, profess to find the city cold and overwhelming. On the West Coast foreigners prefer Disneyland to Hollywood. "You really should have let Khrushchev go to Disneyland," said one Scot. "He probably would still be there if you had." Another great Russian favorite is the tomb of Rudolph Valentino. Still high on every foreigner's list: the Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and the elaborate curlicue highway system. For the sociologically minded, Negro districts are a must. One tourist guide in San Francisco now makes a point of stopping poorly dressed Negroes in the street...
...Henry J. Kaiser's Foundation Medical Care Program, with eleven hospitals, 800 doctors and 800,000 subscribers in the Pacific Coast states and Hawaii, offers womb-to-tomb care, hospital and medical (including psychiatry), for $15.55 a month for family...
Polite Phrases. Next morning he splashed through a downpour without raincoat to lay white gladioli and yellow chrysanthemums at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then sat next to former President Dwight Eisenhower at a White House luncheon. Back in the rain, he cruised the choppy Potomac for two hours with Kennedy on the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. Before leaving the U.S., Ikeda addressed the House of Representatives and flew on to New York, where, in polite phrases, he issued a clear warning: U.S. restrictions against Japanese products can hurt the Japanese economy-and that economy is vital...
...stunned place. Thousands of Dominicans, many of them wailing hysterically, tried to jam into the tiny crypt of the church in San Cristóbal, where Trujillo's closed coffin was laid to rest. Ramfis ordered them out, then, with eyes blazing, vowed at his father's tomb to kill every one of the opposition. After the funeral, 1,000 suspected opponents of the regime were rounded up. Diaz' son was reported killed, and his wife held for torture; the government announced the death of one assassin, the capture of three others...
However, for the record-at least the emotional one: while in London last year, in Westminster Abbey, I heard a group of people ask the guide where Benjamin Disraeli's tomb was, and the guide replied, "Oh, he isn't buried here-he was a Jew, you know...