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...Baptist Church (9,943 congregants). Promptly turning the pulpit into a platform, he set about denouncing political rivals, rarely failing to kiss his female congregant-constituents as they filed past after his spellbinding sermons. Elected to the House in 1944, he kept piling up fame and fortune, acquired a powder-blue Mark V Jaguar, a destroyer-grey Nash-Healey, two boats, three posh homes. 20 winter suits, and, in lawful succession, two wives. Wife No. 1 was a trim Cotton Club chorine, whom Powell divorced in 1945 ("I fear I just outgrew her"). Wife No. 2 is Jazz Pianist Hazel...
...fell free, tail ticking. Four clocks, four barometric switches, four radar rigs inside Little Boy measured the fall. After 15 long seconds, Little Boy began listening for the faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops of Hiroshima-a powder charge sent one uranium mass bullet-ing through a hollow shaft into the other mass. In one fifteen-hundredth of a microsecond, fission began. In that dreadful instant a city died, and 70,000 of its inhabitants...
Finally moving on to Brussels via Paris, the ballet troupers scoured Parisian shops for all the shoes, Pancake Make-Up, eye shadow, nets, Kleenex, false hair, powder puffs and bobby pins they could carry. Wardrobe Master Leslie Copeland flew to London to buy white shirts for the men. Upon his arrival in Brussels, well-heeled Director Lucia Chase and company members cut off the incongruous pockets. The U.S. embassy in London scissored red tape to arrange immediate funds for air-freighting costumes, put the Rambert Giselle score in a Brussels-bound diplomatic pouch. In Brussels itself, one especially vital consignment...
...first call for a summit meeting on the Middle East, Nikita Khrushchev declared that "the world is on the brink of catastrophe," and the fighting had already begun. Last week Khrushchev was still rumbling about "a powder barrel which can explode at the slightest spark." The summit meeting that was shaping up could no longer be justified by such hoarse cries. The flames of violence that had flared in the Middle East had been dampened. Iraq's new regime had diplomatic recognition from just about everybody. In Lebanon the election of General Fuad Chehab as President (see below) raised...
America's men were reared with rubber nipples and talcum powder to an apron-strung neurosis. Homosexuality (8,000,000 in the U.S. at last estimate) went on the upswing--Dad had the only woman worth wanting. And Father became the fall-guy for every situation comedy and Sunday color comic--the benign, well - meaning, oft - stumbling, ever - bungling apex of the Oedipus triangle...