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Then, on a gloomy midnight last December, especially irreverent and irresponsible vandals went to work on the bust with a hammer. Result: no nose, a gouged-out chin, a scar on the left cheek, a chewed-off ear. This, the London constabulary decided, was too much of a good thing. The memorial was covered with a huge black tarpaulin and three bobbies detailed to perpetual guard duty...
Tall (6 ft.), skinny (152 Ibs.) and Cassius-cheeked, Danny is a handsome man-barring his Pinocchio nose. His face, rosy and puckish, is extraordinarily mobile. His mouth is big, his chin square, his eyes blue and easy-rolling. His hair has nervously changed from red to brown to blond at various stages of his life. Current color: carrot. His hands were once described by a critic as "the most expressive since Eleonora Duse...
Then Franklin Roosevelt, almost by himself, discovered the curative value of swimming. With all weight removed from his blighted limbs, he found that he could stand in fresh water to his chin. Half a year later he could stand erect with the water only at his shoulders; in another six months he could make it at armpit-level...
...Conservative, bespectacled General Ho Ying-chin, 57, Army commander in chief and dean of the powerful Whampoa Group, as the faculty and graduates of China's military academy are known...
...views of the Argentine people the U.S. was really interested in. The angry document was shrewdly timed. In Argentina Juan Peron was up to his belligerent chin in a wild political campaign to get himself legitimized as an elected President. His triumph was by no means as certain as he had thought when his regime rashly promised the people they could go to the polls on Feb. 24. His democratic rival Dr. José P. Tamborini had become threateningly strong. There was even a chance that the election might be fair (see LATIN AMERICA...