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Music & Hunting. Such attention to detail marks all the Kennedys' efforts as host and hostess. Jackie plays an active part in picking suitable gifts for White House guests. One recent visitor, Ferik Ibrahim Abboud, President of the Sudan, got a specially made Winchester hunting rifle, delightedly replied: "I come from a country where there are 13 million people and 100 million wild animals." While the President impresses visitors with searching questions about their countries, Jackie carefully plans the menus to suit their tastes, often escorts the guests on a tour of the White House. The Kennedys have the Marine...
Recalling Prado's last state visit as Peru's President during World War II, Kennedy welcomed his visitor as an old friend: "President Roosevelt wanted President Prado to come to our country to express his esteem for him and his leadership against the Axis. Nearly 20 years later, President Prado comes again. The U.S. President is different, times have changed, the adversaries now take a different form. But I believe that both Peru and the U.S., still standing shoulder to shoulder, fight for the same things...
...night visitor to the Leverett Courtyard is no longer blinded by 150 watt spotlights burning into the yellow curtains. No longer does he see the insipid bright and-dark checkerboard of old; the visitor of today is greeted by a varied pattern of bright, dark, and dim. If this pleases the visitor, he may be startled by the sight of peering, bleary-eyed Leverett Men emerging from the Towers...
...about mistreatment. Istanbul's medical report indicated an overdose of sleeping pills. Menderes, who had complained of insomnia, had been given pills by prison doctors, had probably hoarded a near-lethal cache in the lining of his suit. Only a few days before, Menderes had observed to a visitor: "Why didn't they kill me right away at the time of the revolt? This way I die every...
Theologian Max Lackmann, one of Die Sammlung's most articulate members, summed up the movement for a visitor last week: "We want to say yes to tradition but no to traditionalism, yes to the office of the Pope but no to papism, yes to the right of the church but no to legalism, yes to the praised mother of the Lord but no to Marianism, yes to the spiritual center of Rome but no to centralism and Romanism...