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...other minor improvements as she goes along. "If there is a clash between function and style, function will win." says Lady Bird. "I want it to be gracious enough, but it would be out of keeping to expect us to do something really very elegant." Accordingly, there is a brand-new. $15,000 swimming pool in the backyard. And Mrs. Johnson has her eye on a "funny little crooked apple tree" outside one of her bedroom windows, on which she plans to hang temple bells that she picked up in Bangkok...
Promised Monuments. Having reduced the attractions available in the Red Square mausoleum-one of Moscow's top tourist centers-Khrushchev hastened to make up for the loss. He inaugurated a huge, brand-new, Rodin-style statue of Karl Marx, and promised yet another monument-to Stalin's victims. Khrushchev evidently hoped that he had succeeded in laying Stalin's ghost once and for all; that it would no longer roam the Soviet land with a clanking of chains reminiscent of Lubianka prison, or eerie moans recalling the falsely accused thousands who died in Arctic mines and labor...
...Tennessee Williams, and William Inge. The word shot quickly over the mink-line to the Stork's Cub Room, El Morocco and the Harwyn Club. Inside of just a few weeks, virtually everybody who is anybody in café society had snapped up the Peppermint like a brand-new charity...
...attack an enemy tank: circle it at 15 yds. with five troopers like Indians closing in on a wagon train. Not until Hitler's Panzer divisions blitzkrieged France out of World War II in 1940 did the Army really begin its own tank program. Assigned to the brand-new 4th Armored Division, Abrams rose to command the 37th Battalion with the rank of major, drilled his tankers incessantly in marksmanship-particularly on getting in the second shot. Says Abrams: "We really shot much too much, but God, it paid off later...
...look at the animals-and. better yet, touch them if they can. Trouble is, many zoos are so arranged that the only things within a child's reach are balloons, peanuts, popcorn and restrooms. In Manhattan's Central Park last week, kids.flocked by the thousands into a brand-new zoo, built just for them...