Word: visiters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Eliot, 38, is an art editor with deep roots and long training in his field. A child dauber, he was ten when he first became aware of others' paintings. Borrowing his father's bicycle one day to visit a cubist exhibition at Smith College, where his father is a professor, he promised to be back in two hours, so father could ride to his English class. When Professor Eliot stormed into the gallery five hours later, his son was staring at an early Picasso "with the gaze small boys usually reserve for double banana splits. A fatherly...
Just before South Viet Nam's doughty President Ngo Dinh Diem set off last week on a four-day state visit to neighboring Thailand, he was tactially informed that his favorite white sharkskin suit would not be proper at the Royal Thai court. He dispatched an aide on an emergency trip to Hong Kong, but when Diem took one look at the Western-style cutaway, striped pants and grey top hat that the aide brought back, he snorted in disgust and refused to wear them...
...even in Diem's own homeland of South Viet Nam, neutralism and anti-Americanism have shown a marked and steady increase during the past 18 months. Bangkok diplomats just smiled when Thai Premier Pibulsonggram, one of the shrewdest politicians in Southeast Asia, observed blandly of Diem's visit: "Politics won't be discussed. This is a state visit." The fact is that, though Pibulsonggram's public statements are often almost embarrassingly pro-American, he and two of his closest political cronies either own or control 13 of the most violently anti-American newspapers in Thailand. Sample...
...Screening Process. Of the 3,000,000 pilgrims who visit Lourdes each year, some 30,000 are stretcher cases avowedly hoping for cures. Most of these are examined before entering the water by a Bureau of Scientific Studies, which checks the medical history of the case and transmits a dossier to the Medical Bureau. If a patient later declares himself helped or cured, he is immediately examined by a doctor in attendance, who reports in turn to the bureau. This body of doctors (all Roman Catholic) meets almost every day at the height of the season, automatically rejects mental...
...time all this has happened, doctors point out, de Borse's cancer may recur, and even if it does not, the case is remarkable rather than unprecedented. All agree, however, that his dramatic recovery dated from the visit to Lourdes. And perhaps the strangest factor of all is de Borse's own remembrance of the event. "I don't think I had faith in the cure at Lourdes," he admits. "I was just called there. I felt...