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...that TIME has begun to dig the mellower things in life. That real cool [June 22] article on our own "Red" Blanchard was the zorchest mess of weird words your crazy mag's had in eons. It was really nervous, man, and it'll sure help to button up these eggheaded cubes...
...Lois Harris, 22, leaned back luxuriously in her bed, which can be raised or lowered for comfort simply by pressing a button, and declared: "This is really living. Modern homes have nothing on this." Her roommate, Mrs. Helen Sigmund, 26, agreed. Tired for the moment of looking through the plate-glass sliding doors at the shrub-covered hillside above Los Angeles' famed Sunset Boulevard, she simply reached up and pulled a switch. Automatically, yellow cloth curtains rippled across, closing in the room. Said Mrs. Sigmund: "We'll be spoiled rotten by the time they take us home...
Over the years, the general boosted enrollments from 600 to more than 1,250, supervised every one of his cadets down to the last palmetto button. Each morning, dressed in his great blue cloak ("The Shadow," cadets secretly called him), he would tour his campus and deliver a blistering sermon to any delinquent he spotted. But in spite of his strictness, his cadets learned to love him. Once, when he bluntly announced his resignation because a state senator dared to question his budget, the entire corps signed a petition begging him to stay...
...First, Second, Third." At six months, Mickey's mother officially clothed the baby for his future work by making him a visored baseball cap, complete with button on the top. Mutt taught him to count by reciting the bases, "first, second, third." At six years, he had his first uniform, cut from a pair of Mutt's old playing pants...
...vote some government into power. Last week, casually reviewing candidates to end France's 19th political crisis in 7½years, the lords of the Assembly were momentarily shocked out of their lethargy by a man who was only the third invited to form a cabinet: belligerent, button-eyed Paul Reynaud, 74, last Premier of France in the days before World War II swallowed up the Third Republic. Before the Assembly, Reynaud ran down the ills which, he said, had made France "the sick man of Europe...