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After a night as the President's house guests, the royal couple moved across the street to Blair House and began a nonstop, two-day official tour. At Mount Vernon, in a pouring rain, the slicker-clad King placed a wreath on the tomb of George Washington. At the next wreath-laying ceremony in Arlington Cemetery, the Queen tweaked the nose of a small boy who was standing nearby. "What a doll!" sighed a girl under an umbrella. "That's a lot of king," murmured a man, as the 6-ft. 4-in. Paul passed by. At lunch...
...Rights had several unique features, e.g., Moses' tomb ("No man knows where he is buried, and why not here?"), a rainmaking machine on the roof for poetic inspiration, and a funeral pyre intended for Joaquin's eventual use. The place ran on Joaquin's Law: no whisky before noon. On neighboring slopes, he planted some 75,000 trees. In 1892, in the Holy Grotto, as Joaquin called his writing room, he penned his best known poem, Columbus ("Sail on! Sail on! And on!") and got $50 for it. Later, when the poem had become a schoolroom staple...
...visitors seemed determined to pay him tribute. They queued up hour after hour to visit his house, decked his bust with flowers, trudged through rain and mud to place wreaths on his tomb. Finally they gathered in the great Ceremonial Hall, and as each one rose to congratulate the university, the forbidden name seemed to pop up, again and again and again. At the end of the ceremony, Rector Pedro Lain Entralgo of the University of Madrid launched into an impassioned eulogy of "one of the Spanish masters who will live forever, long after many generations have died...
...evening, going to a reception in Rome's Castel Sant' Angelo, spectacularly lighted by 1,023 flaming oil pots, Stephanopoulos and Papagos were saluted by guards in 16th-century costume. The party in the famed Borgia apartments atop the ancient pile (classically known as Hadrian's Tomb) was the high point of a four-day visit which had the practical end of uniting the Greeks and Italians in pledges of friendship...
...Tomb concedes that a careful study may find many places in the South where the economic climate is still inviting, but he warns that a change in scene is not always the solution to a company's troubles. Says he: "Some Northern companies have run into difficulty not because they are located in the North, but, in the final analysis, because they have failed to keep up with competition in the concepts ... of modern management . . . [A] new management approach . . . can work wonders equally well in the North...