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According to the rules of iconography, St. Peter is an old man with thick, white, curly hair and a round, white beard; he wears "a joyous and simple expression." St. John the Evangelist, although sometimes shown as a beardless youth with dark hair, is usually pictured as he was at the end of his life: tufts of white hair bordering a bald head, a long white beard, a beatific smile. His brother James is traditionally shown as a young man; he has thick brown hair, receding slightly at two points, and a short, fringelike beard, much like Christ...
...fans are streaming to hear it at stomp centers from Scotland's isle of Arran to an old dance hall on Eel Pie Island off Twickenham in the Thames, where Henry VIII once twitted his mistresses while eating the best eel pie in the kingdom. Bankers, clerks and beardless youths, secretaries, bus conductors, doctors, bricklayers, teachers-the traddists are a class-dissolving cross section of the nation...
...Jackie had her own pony, by twelve she was riding in horse shows, and her love of horses is abiding. As Jackie and Lee grew older, they met their beaux under the Biltmore clock, fox-trotted through subscription dances at the Plaza and St. Regis with a beardless stag line known for decades as the "St. Grottlesex" set. The languid summers were whiled away in East Hampton, where Jackie played tennis on the grass courts of the Maidstone Club and modeled at the annual Ladies Village Improvement Society fashion show...
That same night, wandering onto a TV panel show, Castro, 33, called Kennedy, 43, and Nixon, 47, "ignorant, beardless kids." His eleven days in Manhattan had brought the showdown with the U.S. much closer. The U.S. embassy suggested to the 4,000 U.S. citizens still working in Cuba that they would be "prudent" to send home their dependents, and the State Department advised Americans not to visit Cuba...
...group of coffeehouse leftists. He went on to Peru, Ecuador, Panama and finally to Costa Rica, a democratic haven for exiles from all over Latin America. Among them were five or six young Cubans who had been led in an attack on a Santiago barracks by a beardless young rebel named Fidel Castro on July 26, 1953-an anniversary that Fidel Castro celebrated last week by gathering 100,000 Cubans in his original mountain stronghold, the Sierra Maestra, for speeches and fiestas...