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Vivaldi & Cold Compress. Normally, Segal casts his models in sections, but for Ethel he wanted to try just two casts, the first from the neck down. "Take a natural position," Segal urged. Ethel plunked herself down on a secondhand green velvet Victorian couch, one leg tucked under the other. Segal proceeded to swab down her arms, dress, legs and boots with petroleum jelly. Then, carefully dipping squares of cheesecloth in plaster, he began molding them to her body...
...something I didn't think I was capable of, and I know it was worth it." Now the two figures-Robert Scull was cast in his sneakers without incident-are permanently placed in their Fifth Avenue apartment. Ethel wears her signature sunglasses; Robert stands proudly behind the Victorian couch. The Courreges boots? Says Ethel gaily: "Oh, somebody will find them inside in some other century. I forgive everyone, even though I did have welts for a week...
...Highet, head of the classics department at Columbia University, recalls that he was particularly busy that winter. Then a professor of Greek and Latin, he had taken on a new course, and night after night he sat at his desk composing his lectures. Meanwhile, his wife sat on the couch near by, quietly scribbling away with a pencil. One evening she stopped, drew a firm line on the paper and said with a sigh of relief, "There. That's done. Would you like to read it?" Highet said rather vaguely, "Yes, of course." He started to read the pages...
...Stafford home in El Lago, near the space center. There they sipped coffee, listened to announcements, and followed air-to-ground conversations piped into a loudspeaker from Mission Control. "Whee! We made it!" shouted Susan Borman as she congratulated Faye Stafford, who had nearly jumped off her living-room couch at lift-off and was still jumping up and down an hour later. Marilyn Lovell, expecting her fourth child soon, was also in high spirits. "I'm just stopping by on my way to the hospital," she joked. Jo Schirra tried to take the excitement in stride, sent...
...successful was the 96-hour couch-in that the Soulniks decided to hold a press conference to spread the lovin' word. They explained that the Hilton setting, if decidedly unspiritual, was essential to the cause. Said one: "You've got to go to a swank downtown hotel, right down in the nittygritty groove, man, to get the press to come...