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Later that afternoon, after he made his U.S. arrival official by placing a wreath on the tomb of Arlington's unknown servicemen. General de Gaulle drove down Pennsylvania Avenue to his first official White House conference. When he came out 75 minutes later, his long, solemn face intimidated even Washington's hard-case press corps. Here was the Western statesman who had last had contact with Khrushchev, the man who was to play host to next month's summit conference?and the newsmen were almost mute. Surely De Gaulle had reported to Ike on his conversations with Khrushchev...
...veteran of two stormy marriages, he looks forward to the summer visits of his ten-and 20-year-old daughters, who live in England. He is still content with the epitaph he once proposed for himself: "I intend to die young and have the following words on my tomb: 'Lawrence Durrell wishes you great passions and short lives.' If I die old, it will only need altering by one word...
Forty full years passed before any guards were posted to protect what was left of the monastery. The monks returned at last, in 1940, found most of its greatest treasures, such as the tomb of Count Folch of Cardona's family with its 16th century bas-relief (opposite), had been mutilated. A superb object of contemplation even now, the relief symbolizes life after death through the story of Jonah and the whale. Jonah is shown spewed up from the whale's belly onto the life-strewn shore...
...year-old ballerina Ashton draped a ballet rich in invention, defiant of technical limitations, blending high jinks, low comedy and pathos. Brilliantly supported by Yorkshire-born David Blair (he managed a singlehanded portage not rivaled at Covent Garden since Ulanova was toted out of Juliet's tomb), Dancer Nerina turned in a performance of superb precision, fluency and lightness. The ballet had some stunning virtuoso bits: a pas de ruban running like a thread through the first two scenes, m which the lovers reel each other in and out of elaborate cats' cradles of pink...
North by Northwest. Superb Hitchcock-and-bullets, with an enduringly spotless Cary Grant and a refreshingly unzippered Eva Marie Saint, involving foreign agents who are brash enough to think they can fill Grant's tomb...