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Staying at Home. It is just possible that Castro bought a shirt and tie at the men's wear counter, for next day he suddenly emerged all dressed up for the official May Day march-past through Red Square. He even sported a blue beret, which seemed increasingly confining as, for five solid hours, under a warm spring sun, he stood at Khrushchev's side on the rampart over Lenin's tomb. It went on and on; 250,000 athletes, workers and schoolchildren paraded by. Only during the ten-minute parade of familiar military hardware, featuring medium...
...less continuously, even though he knows he will be sorry in the morning. Gabin is a merry old soak. He is also the grand old man of French films. He began his career as the Clark Gable of Gaul; he is ending it as Wallace Beery in a beret...
...palmy time of year in Puerto Rico, when fugitives from the mainland crowd the island's modernistic concrete hotels, hoping to warm their bones and tan their hides. Virtually every dollar the tourists spend somehow turns a profit for three forceful brothers named Ferré (rhymes with beret...
They take credit for new beauty trends too. They popularized the "beret-bang coiffure," for which girls snip their bangs along the jaunty angle of a beret; the Churchill sisters claim they see it everywhere. Their book, Reba and Bonnie's Guide to Glamour and Personality, was used as the official reference for the 1962 Miss Universe contest...
...strong nose and chin, Harkins looks every inch the professional soldier. Under him serve some 5,000 U.S. troops (soon to be raised to 8,000) including the U.S. Special Forces, who are all volunteers, all former paratroopers. Their elite status is marked by a bright green beret with a badge bearing crossed arrows and knife blade, and the legend De Oppresso Liber-roughly, To Liberate from Oppression. It is General Harkins' demanding job to fuse these few thousand experts with the willing but incompletely trained armed forces of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem...