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What strikes most visitors when they first go to K.U. is the beauty of the 900-acre, tree-covered campus, atop a hill called Mt. Oread, curiously rising out of the prairies around the town of Lawrence. If he tarries longer, the visitor is impressed by the million-volume library, the small classes, the spectacular wildlife diorama that Kansas inherited from the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, the extension courses for prisoners at Leavenworth Penitentiary (favorite subjects: abnormal psychology and sociology of deviant behavior), the big medical school (in nearby Kansas City, Kans...
...soon became simply amniotic. He refused to drive a car, rarely answered the phone, harrumphed indignantly that the Times of London had gone bolshie, appeared in public with an ear trumpet two feet long, and took savage pleasure in annoying Americans-"Erie Stanley Gardner," he announced sweetly to one visitor, "is the finest living American author...
...Republicans call it, Camp Runamuck. It's nice to be here in Birdland." The President was equal to the occasion. Hope, he said, "is an actor who isn't, as far as I know - at least now - running for public office. And he is a frequent visitor to Viet Nam who has never been asked to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee - at least...
President Johnson and Mrs. Gandhi, who had met before during the then Vice President's 1961 trip to India, hit it off well right from the start. Towering over the 5 ft. 2 in. visitor as they stood on the White House lawn, Johnson called for "that frankness and candor and detail that always mark conversations between good friends." He got it. "India and the U.S.," replied Mrs. Gandhi, "cannot and should not take each other for granted or allow their relations to drift." Later she said of the President: "He goes right to the point without...
...innocence and insight. But it is Madhur Jaffrey as the film star who dances away with the show. Pale and supple as an ibis, she slithers through the film like an erotic ivory temple carving come to life, the embodiment of an India that continues to attract the Western visitor without giving any of itself away...