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Many Houses are using the money largely to attract "big name" visitors to their guest suites. But, to import a celebrity is expensive (he receives transportation costs plus a generous "honorarium," seldom refused). As Master Perkins explained, a House can easily spend 15 per cent of its yearly allowance on a single short-term visitor. Furthermore, celebrities are busy men, usually unable to remain in Cambridge more than a few days. Contact with students may be limited to shaking hands, trading pleasantries over sherry glasses, and a speech. It is never enlightening to hear a man--however great--repeat what...
...exclaimed a Midwestern matron upon arrival in the old British island of Jamaica. "They all speak English." ("What robbers!" she cried after her first taxi ride.) Everyone tried to fit in, and the first purchase was usually a hat-sometimes a yard wide, sometimes a yard high. But one visitor to San Juan, stepping briskly across the lobby of the Condado Beach Hotel in his floppy straw hat, checkered sports jacket, shorts, suede shoes and sunglasses, had a moment of self-doubt. "Do I look too much like a tourist?" he asked a friend...
Back at their farm, the Krals waited for a verdict-due after briefs are filed late this month-and Tommy Kral boasted to a visitor: "Sir, I want you to know I'm reading a book only 13-and 14-year-olds read...
Among the various programs which have evolved, the most publicized, though not always the most successful, has been the parade of House visitors. In the past year these have included Robert Frost (Adams), T.S. Eliot (Eliot), Robert Oppenheimer (Lowell), Chester Bowles (Winthrop), to name only a few. But, even if a House manages to snare a "big name" in what Master Finley calls the "celebrity race," it has not necessarily scored an educational triumph. Under the pressure of crowded schedules, well-known writers and statesmen can not stay as long as they--or the Masters--would like. "It takes...
KIEV, Ukraine, Feb. 26--British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ended talks today in an atmosphere of bitter chill. The British visitor warned Khrushchev of grave danger if anyone interferes with the Western powers' rights in Berlin...