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...raucous weeks, Italy's top TV show, Lascia o Raddoppia (Double or Quits'), which is frankly modeled after the $64,000 Question, rocked the nation. Tempest in the TV pot was balloon-bosomed Maria Luisa Garoppa, 23, a tobacco shopkeeper from northern Italy whose knowledge of Greek drama is only surpassed by her unusual measurements...
...snake-dancing, the balloon-popping and the voice-lifting finally died away-and it was this moment when the clear tone could come through. In accepting his nomination, Dwight Eisenhower devoted himself to a single subject: the future. By applying new and progressive ideas to old and established principles, the U.S. through the Republican Party could reach for a greater tomorrow. In that tomorrow, the pain of crippling disease would be vastly reduced, political wisdom would ensure justice and harmony, and the means would be at hand for "the full realization of all the good things of the world...
...barrage balloon...
Dresses for Men. The chitchat on the boulevards was of Balmain's lavish, fur-trimmed evening cloaks, of Balenciaga's cocoon-like capes and Givenchy's balloon-like cocktail dresses. But wherever gores and gussets were discussed by experts, Christian Dior's name led all the rest. Mindful of the dismal failure of 1954's sad-sack flat look, Dior had turned out a collection of slinky new gowns that puff up the bosom, pinch down the rump, swoop low around the neckline. Exulted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "Dior...
...since no sailing boat can sail the rhumb line exactly, the handicapping distance was 675. Finisterre took a starboard tack off Newport with a 163° compass course. In late evening the wind shifted to the southwest, and Mitchell's crew changed from a spinnaker to a balloon jib. As the small (38 ft. 8 in. overall) yawl left coastal waters, the crew took hourly water-temperature readings, knew they had entered the warm-water Gulf Stream when the thermometer rose to 78°. Navigation was difficult during the whole crossing because of overcast, and Finisterre navigated the last...