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...Party had long since slipped from the control of liberal politicians and moderate civil rights leaders. On the boadwalk, the FDP's silent vigil had degenerated into a vitriolic anti-Johnson rally. Jesse Grey, New York rent striker, milled through FDP headquarters at the Gem Hotel, calling for a last-ditch show of defiance...
Nine Black Bats. Hank Bauer may have quit the A's-but not Kansas City. It has been his off-season home ever since he arrived in 1947, a young pipe fitter who figured himself "good enough to play Triple A ball, nothing more." The Bauers' neat grey-brick house in suburban Prairie Village is stocked with the usual mementos of Hank's playing career: bronze-dipped spikes and gloves, plaques, pictures, and a rack of nine shiny black World Series bats, one for each of Hank's years as a member of the champion Yankees...
...every well-dressed woman of means. She does not have any special flair." Observes Françoise Giroud, co-editor of Paris' L'Express: "Lady Bird is the sort of person quí ne provoque pas les sentiments-she does not evoke feelings. Who cares about a grey lady bird?" And in London, a BBC executive snorted, "She's so beige!" But Yolande Gwin, society editor of the Atlanta Journal, put it more positively. "She's just plain old down-South Lady Bird," says she. "I think she's a much better symbol...
Radio stations broadcast and rebroadcast Fidel's speeches, bookstalls are chockablock with tracts on Lenin and Marx and a grey spectrum of repair and fix-it books. "There isn't a magazine, a novel, or anything else worth reading," sighs an exasperated Cuban. "Just this junk about imperialism and stuff on what a happy place Hungary...
...Kooning House. Architect Gordon Bunshaft, chief designer and partner in Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, has built a small concrete and marble pavilion overlooking an inshore bay, and Edward Durell Stone remodeled a 21-room, grey-shingled elephant on a dune where Jacqueline Kennedy used to play when she was a subdeb Bouvier. The Hamptons' most illustrious and most retiring painter, Willem de Kooning, turned architect and built his own house-over and over again. A huge, $150,000-plus modern mansion with all the daring angularity of De Kooning's art, it has a 30-ft.-high studio...