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...next two days, Johnson maintained a pace that might have put many a younger man in hospital. He shook hundreds of hands, spoke thousands of words, kept so many appointments that the mimeographed White House schedule of daily activities began to read like the Yellow Pages. Warned one concerned visitor: "Mr. President, you're not going to be in condition for the operation if you keep going like this." Lyndon looked miffed. "I feel great," he said...
...drink are another. A daiquiri runs $1.10, and the once-famed Cuban rum approaches the undrinkable. A sinewy little beef filet goes for $10 at the official exchange rate, and red snapper for $4.50 a plate. "It's Stalin-style economics carried to the ultimate," says one foreign visitor. "If you can strip the consumer economy of its buying power, then you can plow your resources into heavy machinery and infrastructure...
...made strides in rebuilding his nation. Pyongyang-completely leveled during the Korean War-has been reconstructed along Moscow mausoleum lines:broad, empty boulevards; vast worker apartment buildings that house stores and restaurants on their ground floors."It's the dullest city in the world, " says a recent Japanese visitor, "but one senses an atmosphere of fierce pride...
...they knew best the Louvre's Venus de Milo. This ver sion, however, was by Spain's Salvador Dali, so of course there was a difference. Dali had put drawers on her. Here and there he had cut out sections and turned them into sliding compartments. One visitor, proceeding on the premise that drawers are for opening, pulled out Venus' forehead, breasts and stomach before a horrified guard could stop...
...month, charming her hosts at a luncheon with 60 Senators and at a dinner given by Dean Rusk-and all the while discussing the danger of admitting Red China to the United Nations. Her wit and ebullience only served to increase the mystery of another, more retiring Nationalist Chinese visitor-one whom she knows well: Defense Minister Chiang Chingkuo, the Generalissimo's son by his first marriage and his political heir apparent...