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Befuddled Nikita. In eclipse nowadays are the ladies who held social sway during the Truman and Eisenhower years. "I started out having little attachés," Gwendolyn Detre de Sunny Cafritz, Hungarian-born wife of a wealthy Washington builder, once said, "and I worked my way up to the Supreme Court." But while Gwen could once corral several Supreme Court justices for her annual October cocktail party lately she has been getting none. Her chief rival, Perle Mesta, used to make up guest lists "like Noah, who invited something of everything into his ark " But Perle has sold...
...late Stephen Ward, as pictured in the report, was not only "the provider of popsies for rich people" but caterer as well "to their perverted tastes," and an avowed Communist sympathizer who yearned to paint Khrushchev's portrait. His close friend, Soviet Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov, was a spy who made no secret of his activities. Poor Christine was "enmeshed in a network of wickedness" from the time she arrived in London at the age of 16 and took a job as a showgirl-"which involved, as she put it, just walking around with no clothes...
...breach of security. However, the report was expected to criticize Macmillan's government for its failure to act in the Profumo case for more than a year after security agents were aware that the War Secretary was sharing Christine Keeler's favors with Soviet Naval Attaché Evgeny Ivanov. This aspect of the case, which has drawn the Labor Party's fire from the beginning, prompted Harold Wilson to demand that the House of Commons be recalled from vacation for a special session next month to review the Denning report. Prime Minister Macmillan denied the request...
Dodging stones, a British military attaché showed his contempt for the mob by parading in front of the embassy playing his bagpipes. In his glass-strewn office, Ambassador Gilchrist finally received a delegation of the rioters. A blunt, spade-bearded Scot who once dispersed an anti-British mob in Iceland by playing Chopin records from a phonograph set in his office window, Gilchrist explained to the rioters that the United Nations had sanctioned Malaysia, dismissed them with a contemptuous "Hidup [long live] U Thant...
...rest of the 1960s. The measure, which next goes to the Senate, would increase the Federal Government's contributions to states from $57 million a year now to $237 million by 1967. The lopsided House vote came only after a party-line battle over Republican efforts to attach an amendment barring grants to segregated vocational training schools or programs. Democrats insisted that this was just a ruse, and two Democratic Negroes voted against the amendment. This led California's Republican Representative Charles Guber to taunt, after the amendment was defeated, "My count shows that 142 Republicans voted against...