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...tony shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland, and one young German photographer set out to snap them all. Among the least camera-shy in the chalet colony was Old Litterateur Noel Coward, 62, who obligingly posed for a seraphic portrait before a pair of huge gilt wings that perch above his fireplace. Coward was highly pleased with the result. "It is a pleasant thought," said he, "to know that I have a top-class photographer so much at hand...
...crushed Illinois. Upstart Stanford, which has not had a winning season for four years, slipped past Tulane and then beat mighty Michigan State. Still smarting from its 21-3 Rose Bowl defeat last New Year's Day, U.C.L.A. got ample revenge by toppling Ohio State from its lofty perch atop the nation's college ratings. When the dust settled last week, the underrated Westerners found themselves with three teams ranked among the nation's top ten. The University of Southern California was No. 3, Washington No. 5, U.C.L.A...
...observers below last saw him alive through the clouds, he was "clearly visible in his fire-engine red tricot, his face turned upward to the skies, his arms outstretched as though asking the heavens for a miracle." In the dark of the night he was swept from his perch and died entangled in his rope against the face of the cliff...
...Barn. Pekin, the home of Bird Farm Sausage, Bourbon Supreme and Olt's Duck Calls, was a pleasant place for boys. They played "stink base," "run, sheep, run," football and marbles, fished for crappies and perch in the river. The block on which the Dirksen house stood was rimmed with bushy maple trees, and Tom Dirksen recalls that "you could climb up in one tree and go all the way around the block without touching the ground, climbing from tree to tree." But Everett didn't go in too much for that sort of amusement. Says...
...Hong Kong, even if a man sleeps on the street-and 15,000 do each night- there is work enough to buy at least some food. The unskilled refugees find jobs paying $1 a day as ditchdiggers, coolies, factory sweepers, stevedores. Children perch on street corners putting together plastic flowers for the U.S. market. Young mothers, with babies strapped to their backs, haul water up the mountainside...