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...Nebraska's Catholic Duchesne College unless she sticks to the no-bathing-suit ban, blonde Mary Jean Belitz, 18, last week gave up her Miss Omaha title. To Mary Jean's mother, the ban was bewildering: her pert (36-24-36) daughter had often appeared in the briefest drum-majorette costumes without causing church disfavor...
...five days and nights, she came apart at the seams more often than an overloaded grocery bag. Apart from the day she pendulated across the Avenida Atlântica glued into her briefest bikini (thus causing a three-car crash), almost nothing stayed on. That night, as she danced in the Copacabana Palace Golden Room, an enterprising Brazilian yanked on the zipper at the back of her dress and. presto, 0 Busto was bare to the waist...
...floats and close to a hundred bands-but not one too many of those luscious-legged drum majorettes from such towns as Magnolia, Ark. and Kitchener, Ont. Later in the week the wives had plenty of time to spend money in the department stores. In between the boisterous, briefest business sessions, the men got to a big league game at Wrigley Field (Chicago Cubs 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 7). The kids danced to a big band in the Aragon Ballroom. In case anybody thought the recession was a problem, some of the members passed out buttons reading...
...hatching from eggs retained in the mother's body. More vicious than the grownups, they strike with their tiny fangs at the slightest provocation. Mother rattlesnakes do not take care of their young. The rattle is a simple warning, not a love call, and males take only the briefest interest in the females. But male rattlesnakes have the odd custom of "wrestling" together, swaying their heads and bodies with a graceful rhythmic motion. The defeated snake is never bitten or otherwise hurt. Klauber is not sure of the purpose of the wrestling match. He thinks it may have some...
...overelaborate, rather cute stylist; others brush aside what they feel are merely trappings and hail Lamb as one of the kindest, most generous men that ever lived. Editor Matthews manages to include all these Lambs in his selection and to write what is probably the truest, briefest epitaph: "His friends loved him: his friends still...