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...Mexico City's resplendent Palace of Fine Arts, a glittering throng gathered this week to witness the inaugural ceremonies of a new President. The leaders of Mexico and the envoys of 57 foreign governments, in braid-crusted uniforms or solemn full dress, watched as a gaunt man in a plain black suit stepped forth. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines had come to take his oath as President...
After prolonged ceremonies, a lavish celebration is prepared. The people cut bamboo to fence a dancing area, and build covered seats and sleeping couches all around its margin. An elaborate feast is made ready. The warriors braid their hair, at a sign from the elders, the drums roll and the warriors parade around the dance area showing to their fellow citizens the heads that they have taken...
...technique of homecoming welcome. With happy six-year-old abandon, Priscilla Pace catapulted to the arms of her father, who welcomed the assault with obvious pleasure. At week's end Pace left his official problems long enough to go on another trip, this time to join the gold braid section in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, where he watched Navy trounce Army...
...girl-and a visual love song"). But many pictures suggest their subject in a single, self-contained flash: a Nebraska wheatfield canopied with monumental clouds; dead G.I.s on Buna Beach; Evita Perón getting her last primps before a party, while her famous husband stands by in gold braid, cooling his heels. "Humor," says Steichen, "is one of the rarest elements to be found in photography," but he finds some here-in a misanthropic rhesus monkey, squatting armpit-deep in water; in the earnestness of a Sigma Chi inaugural dinner; in a blasé dog star of television...
...came on Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," a well-tried. In last it is being tried again in New York this week. But you are lucky to be in Cambridge. The performance here is no chuke job. The costumes and get are extravagantly eighteenth century, and appearing prominently in gold braid and squashed top-hat is the late W. C. Fields via Jerry Kilty as Sir Tobey Belch. In this Kilty has resisted the case of playing another Falstaff, which he does well, and instead successfully innovates a double impersonation...