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...Lake Balaton, a narrow, 48-mile-long "inland sea" just 56 miles from Budapest. A renowned Central European watering spot since the days of the Romans, Balaton is a pleasant place to visit even without the added incentive of reunion. Its delicate wines-such as the Badacsony szurke barat (Grey Friar)-are eminently sippable, and the shallow, turquoise-blue lake, ringed with breezy cafes and villas, has a bright, Mediterranean air about it. Of the 40,000 Western tourists who visited Balaton last season, 60% were Germans...
...glass looked as transparent as the standard windowpane, but scientists at the Manhattan meeting of the American Physical Society were impressed by its strange qualities. On brief exposure to sunlight the glass turned grey. Back in the shade, or in ordinary artificial light, it promptly turned clear as window glass again...
Tate: Aren't you a Robin Hood in a grey flannel suit...
...other side of the Capitol, the House Rules Committee continued to hold what it euphemistically calls hearings on the Administration's civil rights bill. Under the direction of Virginia's Judge Howard Smith-who reluctantly will send the bill to the floor after a long, grey line of Southern civil rights opponents have had their say-the proceedings were not so much informative as they were entertaining, which was all right with Judge Smith too. When Ohio's Republican Congressman William M. McCulloch testified in behalf of the bill, Smith tried to tease him into admitting that...
...obvious that the girl had talent. She could talk to a television camera as if it were her pastor. She could smile lovingly at a new car and slip into the driver's seat while letting only a proper amount of knee show. She had a Grey Lady's sincerity and a sorority sister's charm. And she earned $150,000 a year as the Chrysler Girl on television. Then she suddenly announced she was giving it all up for grand opera. That's right, honey, her friends told her, lots of luck...