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...White House Mendès discussed the Saar agreement with President Eisenhower for nearly an hour, then topped off a steak luncheon with a big glass of milk. At the Senate he was greeted warmly, and at the statue of La Fayette, opposite the White House, he placed a wreath of white chrysanthemums...
...that the French were leaving quietly, the Indians felt a little more kindly towards them, and even placed a wreath at the foot of a statue to France's great colonial conqueror, General Joseph François Dupleix...
HESTER LILLY AND TWELVE SHORT STORIES, by Elizabeth Taylor (210 pp.; Viking; $3). In this collection-a novelette and a dozen short stories-British Novelist Elizabeth Taylor (A Wreath of Roses, The Sleeping Beauty) takes stock characters, and with hairline precision asserts a small but significant dissent from the stock notions of them. She disconcerts the common sentimental concept of blindness with the story of a rough, tough old horse dealer gone blind, who finds himself isolated and bewildered in a "home," where the matron refuses to read him the racing news. In the predictable tensions of the novelette...
...goes back to the grand old days of Handel (1685-1759), but the London prom proper was just 60 years old last week. To celebrate the occasion, dapper Conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent ("Flash Harry" to the trade) appeared before the crowd five minutes ahead of time. Bearing a laurel wreath, he strode purposefully to the bust of the late Sir Henry Wood, permanent prom conductor for its first half-century, and collared it. Promenaders cheered...
...Historic significance!" cried the National Herald. "Momentous!" echoed the Hindustan Standard. "There may be a new chapter opening in Asian relations." Destiny Beckons. Chou drove first to the Jumna River, where he laid a big wreath upon Mahatma Gandhi's cremation ground. He paid his formal respects to President Prasad (whose office is decorated with autographed pictures of Eisenhower and Nixon). Then Chou got down to serious business with Nehru in a conference that many Asians equated with the Churchill-Eisenhower parley in Washington...