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...entrance to the hospital. Outside the operating room stood Secret Service Man Rowley. Assigned to carry progress reports from the operating room to the President's anxious family was Dr. Snyder. Mamie, John and Dr. Milton Eisenhower, the President's youngest brother (see EDUCATION), waited in the Williamsburg-green living room of the President's suite. Outside the hospital, newsmen clambered on a fountain, adorned by stone penguins (which were not at the moment spouting water) to get an angled glimpse into the operating room. They saw only the dramatic shadow-show of surgeons at work...
...restored House of Burgesses at Williamsburg, where Patrick Henry declaimed against the Stamp Act ("If this be treason, make the most of it"), a Virginia lady in lace cap and farthingale had words last week with Georgy Zarubin, emissary of the biggest colonial power on earth. "This is hallowed ground," Mrs. John Henderson, a guide, explained to Soviet Ambassador Zarubin, who was there with 30 fellow diplomats for the 180th anniversary celebration of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. "This is a shrine to the principles of freedom," she went on, "and for us Americans the greatest meaning, the greatest...
...Battle for Minds. Georgy Zarubin's pilgrimage to Williamsburg was a symptom of the new phase in the battle for men's minds, which last week flared with new intensity throughout the free world. The Soviet policy of smiles was picking up mileage and momentum by the minute, relaxing freedom's watchfulness, exacerbating the free world's differences, as the urgency of fear was removed. In suburban Hyattsville, Md., First Secretary Alexander Zinchuk of the Soviet embassy made a jovial pitch for a U.S.-Russian bridge across the Bering Strait so man could ride by road...
...From Williamsburg to Cairo to Moscow, the events of last week made a sharp reminder that the perils of peace, mercifully less brutal than the horrors of war, are nevertheless real...
MILLION-DOLLAR MOTELS near Pittsburgh and Williamsburg, Va. have proved so successful for Knott Hotels Corp. that the chain will build (at a total cost of more than $3,000,000) and operate three more near Washington, Pittsburgh and Groton, Conn. Washington motel, first to be built, will have 125 air-conditioned rooms with private balconies, a restaurant, an Olympic-sized swimming pool with cabanas...