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...Chinese feel toward Moscow. The latest outburst was the result of a very curious incident that occurred right in the epicenter of world Communism, Moscow's Red Square. There, 69 Chinese students, en route home from European universities to join the Red Guards, stopped off to place a wreath on Stalin's grave, reading from their little red Mao-think books and singing Maoist hymns. The two onetime allies gave their own versions of what happened next. Said the Chinese: "A large number of Soviet troops, policemen and plainclothesmen attacked them from all sides and beat them...
...gardens overlooking the Pasig River, Johnson sat with a bright pink bandanna around his neck and a wreath of white sampaguitas-the Philippines' national flower-on his head, sampling suckling pig, barbecued crab claws, pickled papaya and coconut punch laced with rum. When the band struck up Hello, Dolly!, the President loped out onto the marble floor with Imelda while guests scrambled atop chairs and tables for a better view. Alone, the couple danced through one chorus, Lyndon lumbering around in his Texas two-step, Imelda crooning the words to him. Still alone, they danced to a second chorus...
...Riviera he went shopping in Saint-Paul-de-Vence's steep, stony streets, tried his hand at lawn bowling, and like Yves Montand and Simone Signoret-wined and dined at the Colombe d'Or. Then it was on to Paris for a round of wreath-layings, ceremonials, and the more important business of lunching and chatting with De Gaulle, who knew just how to warm the heart of his Eastern neighbor...
...Russians turned the tide at Stalingrad, De Gaulle peered through thick spectacles at the map of the battlefield. "Ask Voronov how he organized his artillery," De Gaulle asked the interpreter. After the reply, De Gaulle said approvingly: "You are a great artillerist." Still he refused to lay a wreath at the Stalingrad memorial. That recalled his comment to the Russians in 1944 when he viewed Stalingrad for the first time: "Un grand peuple les allenands." Everywhere he went, De Gaulle ate heartily, but at the Volgograd hydroelectric station he met his match. The station officials had prepared...
Much like the laurel wreath of ancient Greece, the honorary degree is to some extent a measure of the nation's esteem for human achievement. This year the man most voluminously laureled by the U.S. academic community was Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray (TIME cover, Dec. 12, 1960), chief architect of the Vatican Council's historic declaration on religious liberty. He received six honorary doctorates, from Yale, Columbia, Fordham, Gonzaga, Fairfield and Detroit universities...