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...that the Belgian King was giving for NATO leaders. Spotting friendly crowds, the President, disregarding both his phlebitis and the usual dictates of protocol, decided to walk instead of ride the two long blocks to the Royal Palace and shake hands with the people who lined the way. A tourist couple from Georgia gave a word of cheer from home-"God bless you. We are for you"-and the President lingered to find out that they lived near the Okefenokee Swamp. "I know where it is," he told them, adding: "Dry it out." The royal band, which had expected...
Dadd's mental collapse had taken place in Egypt (hence, presumably, his "possession" by Osiris), where in 1842 he had gone as traveling artist and companion to a doughty Victorian tourist named Sir Thomas Phillips. The exotic vistas dumbfounded Dadd. "The excitement of these scenes," he wrote to a painter friend in England, "has been enough to turn the brain . . . and often I have lain down at night with my imagination so full of wild vagaries that I have really and truly doubted my own sanity . . . for I've got opened my mind...
...subordinate-not necessarily. The national effort to give blacks a more equitable share of the nation's goods and benefits has had results-uneven but undeniable. Increasingly, blacks are seen in offices of corporations and banks, in classrooms of elite colleges, in officers' clubs, affluent suburbs, theaters, tourist haunts. Says Daniel C. Thompson, chairman of the sociology department at New Orleans' predominantly black Dillard University: "Being black and qualified is the most valuable commodity in American society...
...first the KGB mailed these false letters from Prague, using the return address of the well-known author and psychiatrist Josef Nesvadba. Later they supposedly were sent by a certain Ottokar Gorsky, whose home address was given as 1, Revolution Street, the location of the Czechoslovak airline and tourist offices. But Gorsky's telephone number indicated that he lived in another district-which happens to be the location both of the Soviet embassy and the Czechoslovak secret police...
From the beginning, the project's chief proponent, Jacqueline Kennedy, has desired the Library to be exciting for young people, and a melting pot for all of Boston's as well as Harvard's students. The melting-pot idea has tarnished a bit, with the Library's tourist-attraction aura toned down, but there is still enough of a potential traffic problem to warrant the environmental study and the crowd estimates...