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...that, he had fallen in love with flying. "Whenever an airplane went by, everythin' stopped for me." In his senior year at college, he and a friend decided to try their wings at a grass airfield at Waynesburg. The event had something of the character of a corn-silk smoking session behind the barn. "I tell you," he says, "there was a lot of foot-draggin' on the way. I kept wonderin' out loud if we weren't goin' the wrong way. if we oughtn't to turn around. But we went up. finally...
...question about it, "Operation Silk Hat" was a good show. The Air Force had been working on it for five months. It had cost "several million" dollars. Wood and canvas buildings, erected as ground targets, cost some $5,000 alone. Nearly 4,000 men helped set the stage, polishing all the aircraft with NEVR-DULL wax, and shining trucks that the President never saw. For the press, 23 special telephone lines and eight Teletype machines were installed. For the President. 20 white telephones, each with a White House decal, were spaced conveniently along his route...
Sought Fissures. A Soviet trade mission concluded a new economic agreement for 1962 with Peking last week. China will exchange tin, mercury, wool, silk fabrics, readymade clothes and handicrafts for Russian oil products, chemicals, trucks, scientific instruments and machinery parts. Significantly, China undertakes to export no food, and the Russians apparently were supplying little or no equipment related to heavy industry...
...Pink." What blinded was a dark gold silk ball gown, encrusted to the knees with sparkling jewels and gold sequins. Farah's sleek black hair was piled high in a bun and held in place with a tiara blazing with diamonds and six lime-sized emeralds from the Iranian crown jewels. Other multi-carat emeralds and diamonds adorned a collar at her throat-and Jeweler Harry Winston, who had recently restyled her jewels especially for the party, described them as priceless. Jackie Kennedy, never one to be overshadowed, wore a chic Chez Ninon ball gown with a sleek white...
Madame Schwarzkopf, looking radiant and lovely in green silk, waited with queenly patience for the many latecomers who tramped in throughout the whole first section of the program, doing their best to mar the splendid repose of the opening song, Bach's Bist Du bei mir. Those who knew Madame Schwarzkopf's singing only from her recordings may have been a bit disappointed by the first two groups of songs, for her voice has not quite the purity and control of four or five years ago, and the acoustics of the HST seem bright and clear almost to a fault...