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...Sorry, lady," said the guard outside the U.S. Air Force PX in Madrid. "The rule says no slacks allowed." The rule had been imposed in deference to Spanish propriety on orders from the commander of the U.S. Military Mission, Major General Stanley Donovan. Clad in grey flannel slacks, the lady, Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the U.S. ambassador, and a priestess of high fashion in Washington when her husband was the State Department's Chief of Protocol, sheepishly stepped aside and let Mrs. Donovan herself-clad in the regulation skirt-go in to buy the golf balls they...
...Then he sat down in Dunn's child-sized chair and walked away with it stuck to the seat of his pants, puffed madly at Dunn's butt-sized cigarettes, and generally behaved in outrageous taste. But somehow by the show's close, against the dull grey background of his colleagues, Moron Maxwell Smart seemed brighter than anybody. And funnier...
Cool Poetry. "Macadam, gun-grey as a tunny's belt/Leaps from Far Rockaway to Golden Gate," is was this America on the move, ironing out its regional peculiarities and aswarm immigrant energy, that artists were now forced consider, and most of them found viewing best when equipped with foreign spectacles. While the newspaper-trained illustrators who became the ashcan school saw ugliness as a police court scene, their friend. Maurice Prendergast, went to Paris, returned to paint Manhattan's Central Park in the pure colors of a soft-hued tapestry...
...LOOKING GLASS WAR, by John le Carré. The author sends another ungimmicky thriller out to fight the cold war with James Bond. Grey East Germany and red-taped London are again the settings; the spy is another drab, lonely...
Last spring, when the U.S. tried one alternative-harmless tear gases-an A.P. reporter latched onto the story, and from the hue and cry that followed, one might have thought that the scene was Ypres and the weapon was that deadly grey-green fog of 1915 called chlorine. In Washington, Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara rode out the storm, their protests that the gas was utterly harmless drowned in the fatuous worldwide din of indignation. While not publicly giving way, the U.S. tacitly decided that for the moment even tear gas was too hot to handle in Viet...