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Though the distinguished visitor would not officially achieve the rank of head of state until his country withdraws its allegiance next fall to the British Crown (though not the Commonwealth), his hosts in nearby Conakry, the capital of Guinea, decided to give him a 21-gun salute anyway. In a few minutes, a cane-swinging Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana strode down the gangplank of his chartered freighter to embrace, somewhat stiffly, the President of the Republic of Guinea, youthful (37) Sékou Touré. Later, when the two men stood side by side to review the tiny...
...people. In the brief two months of summer, they swarm from their dirty, smoke-filled houses, set up white tents with blue trimmings on the river meadows, sing, drink milk beer and tell stories. They splash together in the streams for their first baths of the year. Nearly every visitor to penetrate the forbidden land has been enchanted by its people. They do few things terribly well, but everything with zest. Explorer Fosco Maraini believes they have found the secret of liberty, which is "to live like a flower or a stone; sheltering from the rain in bad weather, enjoying...
Ranged around their long, six-sided White House table, the President of the U.S. and his Cabinet listened attentively as the slender, curly-haired visitor got up to speak. The time: midsummer 1958. The man: Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn. Gist of his remarks: a pessimistic forecast of November's congressional elections unless something was done...
Castro, speaking next, said: "I feel my ideas at odds with those of our illustrious visitor." In support of neutralism, he offered a flattering version of U.S. civil defense: "They have shelters against atomic attack; we do not have even a miserable small hole in which to hide. Why not say these truths? Why not say that Cuba has participated in all the wars and when the wars were over its sugar quota was taken away?"* But Castro thought he knew how Figueres had gone wrong: he had been influenced by "a press campaign emanating from the monopoly of international...
...backstage visitor, Actor Ralph Bellamy, starring on Broadway as the young F.D.R. in Dore Schary's Sunrise at Campobello, perked his jaw at a bold tangent, managed a practiced facsimile of the famed face-wide grin. On hand to size up the miming: South Carolina's retired Democratic Governor James F. Byrnes, 79, whose memory of spats with the boss he once served seemed mellowed: "I understood Mr. Roosevelt's feelings about politics. But it is inevitable when you have a political difference with someone that people attribute bitterness to it. Bitterness is a popular word...