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...White House last week came the first state visitor since President Johnson's inauguration. He was little (5 ft. 6 in.) Maurice Yameogo, President of the little (105,900 sq. mi.), new nation of Upper Volta. Yameogo, 43, came to Washington a fan of Abraham Lincoln; he left a fan of Lyndon Baines Johnson...
Last week Publicity Man Jerry Do-bin, of the two-year-old $12 million Doral Beach Hotel, spelled it out explicitly for a visitor: "Miami Beach was built for big-city people. It's the big city's idea of a tropical setting. Furthermore, it's primarily a Jewish resort. The reason Jews like Miami Beach is be cause it's a resort that says, 'Indulge yourself-live a little.' Drive out to the Bonfire Restaurant and have a piece of their chocolate cake. It's about a foot high. Sure, nobody needs...
...promising Niccolò Tucci, Columbia's Writing Program Chairman John Humphries explains: "It is not a question of what Mr. Tucci can do for us, but what we can do for Mr. Tucci." Wesleyan once discovered that an artist can be given too much freedom: one famed visitor spent his subsidized time preparing lecture notes for high-priced delivery at another university...
...Hearing that the visitor to her sunbaked village was the top man in the Dominican Republic, an old woman instinctively shouted, "Viva el generalisimo!" Donald Reid Cabral, 41, chief of the country's governing junta, turned and smiled wryly. "Madam," he replied, "I am not even a private...
...Guevara glowers within sight of the Spanish master's only landscape, View of Toledo, and his last great commission, St. John's Vision. In adjacent quarters Poussin's Sabine women are abducted in the passionless postures of French neoclassic actors. Through another doorway the visitor is delivered into 18th century England, attended by four Gainsboroughs, three Reynolds portraits, a Romney, and a dozen other chamois-cheeked countenances that peer down, mellow within their lacework gilt frames, between ornate black marble period fireplaces...