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...African." Besides miniskirts, the ban includes wigs, tight pants for men or women, and chemicals used to bleach skins and "dehumanize the African people." Hair-straightening devices, lipsticks and other cosmetics have already been condemned. Beauty contests, the "exploitation of female flesh," are taboo. Green-guard girls wear thick skirts well below their knees...
...give a grandfather to her children." A Boston matron icily charged that "Jackie has made the Gabor sisters look like ladies." A few commentators were still disproportionately distressed, like the Italian columnist for L'Espresso who painted Onassis as "this grizzled satrap, with his liver-colored skin, thick hair, fleshy nose, the wide horsy grin, who buys an island and then has it removed from all the maps to prevent the landing of castaways." It was left to Novelist Gore Vidal, no admirer of the Kennedys, to deliver the week's most understated attack on the marriage...
...gonna arrest you," he said, and let go. When we got back to his seat at the front, he slumped down in the window seat with his short legs leaning up against the cabin wall, and looked up at me from the folds of his black suit, his thick eyebrows raised, his lips in what seemed to be a sneer--but is really just the way he looks all the time...
Sione, a native of Tonga in the South Pacific, has added a great deal of the tradition to Harvard rugby in the four years he has played. Moderately tall, but solidly built, with dark skin and thick curly hair, he has a ready smile and friendly manner. His post-game ritual, which he claims is "some sort of a Tonganese war dance," has become an eagerly anticipated feature of the Saturday morning matches. The rugby parties and pig roats he gives are notorious...
...first strategic decisions facing the next President will be whether or not to construct a "thick" defensive network of anti-ballistic missiles that might cost $40 billion. Humphrey doubts the wisdom of doing that; Nixon has expressed no firm position. Another national concern is the nuclear nonproliferation treaty-an attempt to stop other countries, including some erratic new ones in Asia and Africa, from building and brandishing atomic bombs. To prevent such possible nuclear blackmail, Humphrey urges quick U.S. ratification of the treaty. Nixon has called for a delay because of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. His critics point...