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...Angeles, Adlai Stevenson was suddenly exposed to the Hollywood atmosphere. Like many another visitor, he found it unsettling at first, but not unpleasant once he got used...
...Kurdish horseman plunging down the side of a hill and breaking out on to the valley floor to gallop in a rising cloud of dust is unforgettable. Stop a car along one of the lonely, untraveled roads of Kurdistan, and you're almost sure to attract such a visitor. He comes thundering down on you as though he were leading a cavalry charge. A tasseled turban flies above his fierce, lean face, and the wind turns his wide, baggy pants into balloons. A rifle is slung across his back, and from the sash about his waist there hangs...
City Ways. In Richmond, Ind., a twelve-year-old visitor from the country carefully explained why he had turned in a false fire alarm: some city boys had told him that if he pulled the lever in the red box a bird would pop out and forecast the weather...
...catch the unwary visitor, there were two paintings called The Empty Chair, both of which are genuine works by David Bles, who simply made a larger version of his first Chair. Visitors were urged to fill out questionnaires identifying unlabeled fakes and genuine pictures; of 1,827 - including some experts- only seven scored 100%. (Wrote one canny viewer: "This picture can't be real, because if it were, there'd be a guard here...
...Cornell had a distinguished visitor last week-Oxford University Don David Butler, who calls himself the world's first psephologist. That, says he, is a man who specializes in the study of elections; the word comes from the Greek for pebble ("You know how they used to hold their elections by dropping pebbles in a box"). Psephologist Butler admitted that the coinage was a joke, "but for all I know, the word may some day catch...