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...President of the U.S., "as umpire of battle re-creations," declare that the South had won after all. "In other words, permit the Southern states to secede from the Union for keeps. For nine decades they've been out of step with the rest of the nation anyhow, so why not accept the fact and permit the Confederate States of America to officially form itself...
...Gallery had given its Bronze Medal to one of his paintings. It was just about the only prize that had ever come his way, and the old man could not help being amused. "Well," he said, "I am glad they've found out I'm not crazy, anyhow." For today's gallerygoer the wonder is more likely to be that so gentle and genteel a painter (see color) could ever have been considered a disturber of the peace...
...sold at least one gown to Pat for cost.* Tracked down at Atlantic City, Pat Nixon, who was wearing a turquoise wool jersey dress (Lord & Taylor, "about $49"), replied coolly to questions from newsmen: "I have no comment on what Mrs. Kennedy wears or says." Then she commented anyhow: "I don't criticize other women, and I never have. I buy my clothes off the racks of various stores around Washington and sometimes, in New York." Pressed further, she provided a distaff version of one of the week's most popular political lines: "I don't think...
...driving either." At the stops along the course, the women indeed did a good job of talking their male competitors into states of nervous exhaustion. Said Mary Davis: "Anyone who's on the road for hours at a time like this is inclined to be tense and irritable anyhow. All we women did was say things like 'Gee, Woody, you don't look well,' and help the men get more irritated faster. I saw one guy break down and start bawling like a baby after the first day, when he found out we were leading...
...Senate in 1946 by Texas' Senator Tom Connally, which reserves to the U.S. the right to withhold any case from the jurisdiction of the World Court in Geneva by calling it a "domestic issue.'' Since domestic disputes are actually exempt from World Court action anyhow, the lawyers knew that the Connally Reservation would serve only to encourage other nations to enact the same kind of proviso, create a situation where disputants could keep any meaningful international cases away from the court simply by labeling them "domestic.'' Events proved them correct, and the structure of international...