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...tantalizing absence, Mao was back again, this time to welcome Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie to Peking. As one of the 27 aides who accompanied the Lion of Judah told it, the Chairman seemed in the pink. Mao "was smiling and waved his arms to greet his royal visitor," he reported. As the two leaders began their private 105-minute talk, Mao was "in a very good mood, ready to make jokes...
Time: 1948. Scene: The quaintly musty Cambridge University rooms where E.M. Forster lived the last 25 years of his life as an honorary fellow. The young visitor was Gore Vidal, who had just piqued the U.S. literary scene with The City and the Pillar, perhaps the frankest homosexual novel in the language to date. Forster allowed as how he too had once written-but suppressed-a homosexual novel that boldly depicted two boys in bed together. "And what did they do?" asked Vidal. "They...talked," replied Forster...
...help his exhausted guest out of the back seat, then embraced him warmly. Paul led the aged man to an apartment in St. John's Tower and -in the ultimate gesture of papal humility-gave the pectoral cross and bishop's ring he was wearing to the visitor...
...return Okinawa to Japan for $320 million in indemnities, including $70 million to cover the cost of removing U.S. nuclear weapons. Nixon thought the Japanese, in exchange, ought to agree to the U.S. textile demands. He got the impression that Sato agreed. Too late, Nixon discovered what many a visitor to Japan eventually learns: the Japanese often seem to be saying yes because they find it discourteous to say no. The President was infuriated; when the Okinawa treaty was formally signed last June, he deliberately bypassed the Washington half of the ceremony...
Because of "No Trespassing" signs posted in Harvard buildings, University Police are empowered to prosecute anyone they find inside a dorm who is not a visitor or a Harvard Students Agencies representative. Harvard Police urgently request students to report any suspicious people in or around dormitories...