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...British-educated leaders walked in the pine-fringed garden and delicately explored their differences. It was, said an aide, a "conversation by suggestion, by implication, by pregnant pause, by meaningful silence." Before each session. President Ayub presented his guest with a new rose or a sprig of garden phlox for his buttonhole...
...blonde relaxes across the sofa. Pink dress, pink shoes, pink toenails and pink lipstick dominate a background of blue phlox and red roses. "John," she calls. "Bring in the babies...
...Phlox & Talks. The Russians, in no mood to niggle when they had such a good thing, welcomed the travelers like long-lost brothers. They sent a special VIP plane to Helsinki to pick them up, put them up lavishly in the Sovietskaya Hotel in suites complete with pianos and radios. "Truly a place for important people," glowed Unionist Harry Franklin. Georgy Malenkov himself invited them out to a handsome country dacha, and after picking a bunch of phlox and gladioli for Dr. Summerskill, told her gallantly: "What has been wrong too often in the world of education is that...
...first night in town, the visitors were shipped out to a spacious dacha once occupied by Maxim Gorky, to be wined and dined by the Kremlin's biggest wigs. Clad in gleaming white, Premier Malenkov himself strode to the garden to pick a bouquet of purple phlox and red gladioli for Dr. Edith. Some time later he soothed her feminist ardor with the assurance that women in the field of education were "too often overmodest." So many happy vodka toasts were drunk that night that even teetotaling Harry Earnshaw lost count over endless glasses of lemonade...
...Boston mother expressed concern over her infant son's propensity for eating TIME'S covers and four-color ads. She wanted to know whether the red and other colored inks would harm him. Our production department advised her that red inks contain phlox-ine, which has lead in it-and lead will not do anybody's son any good...