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Mamie smiled her way through some 200 persons spilling around the sidewalk (mostly women and children) and entered the Congrelephant. She pinned a Harris-for-Congress button on her coat and began to shake hands with the women crowding into the bus, which had been redone into a sort of traveling living room. One of the first housewives in line was Mrs. Robert M. Johnson, who brought her son Randy. "You don't know what this means to us," she gushed. "You see, Randy was born the day Ike was elected President." He got a hug from the President...
...background of Broadway, a fashion show and an intimate nightclub. Betty got excellent support from a pair of cowpokes (Josh Wheeler and Guy Raymond), from Kevin McCarthy as the hero, and from a new French singer, Genevieve. The music, written especially for TV by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans (Buttons and Bows), was astonishingly good. Both Satins and Spurs and You're So Right for Me may be sounding from radio and jukeboxes for some time to come. Betty Button's most infectious number was a novelty called Wildcat Smathers that featured a rodeo dance on a trampoline...
...Woman in the Polar Night, by Christiane Ritter (Button; $3), is the story of another intrepid woman and her adventures in a colder climate than Arizona. Frau Ritter lived for a year on the north coast of Spitsbergen in a hut ten feet square, with her husband and a young Norwegian hunter, in temperatures that sank to 40° below zero. To the north lay Anxiety Bay, to the south Distress Hook, to the east Misery Bay and to the west the Bay of Grief. Not a tree or shrub rose from the sea of stones that covered the desolate...
...McConnell, 32, father of three, was test-flying a new swept-wing Sabre, the F-86H, out of Edwards Air Force Base in California. Suddenly the controls froze; McConnell radioed the base that he would try to save the plane. When it was too late, he pushed his ejection button. He was found dead, near the ejected seat and the unopened parachute...
...Howard Poweshiek, leader of the church on the reservation in Iowa, the Indians stepped quietly in single file. It was sundown. Dressed mostly in jeans or slacks and open shirts, the men sat cross-legged on the bare earth, facing a fire. Each helped himself to the peyote buttons that were passed around, and from time to time someone lit up a ceremonial cigarette (Bull Durham tobacco and corn husks). Until 7:30 the next morning, the big tepee was filled with prayers and gentle chants, and the soft rhythmic beat of the gourd. There was a "Fire Chief...