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  • luncheon at Biltmore. (Wiley and Roberts go to Senz.) Meets at 3 p.m. with Helen Gahagan Douglas and Mr. Gahagan. Meets at 3:45 with Ted Kheel (EEOC) and Mr. Markham. Attends Whitney Young reception at Park Sheraton Hotel, and later addresses Franco
  • . the Smithsonian Institution, and Cornell University. A focal point of the exhibit is Houdon's 1790 bronze sculpture of General Lafayette. One of the most priceless pieces is the Franco-American Treaty signed in Paris on February 6, 1778. The exhibit ommemorates
  • deadly political differences. During the Franco-Prussian War, the Louvre custodians worried that the PrusĀ­ sians might loot the museum and steal their Venus. (They may have had good r ason for concern. King Ludwig II or Bavaria-"Mad Ludwig" the builder