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...Fashion Designers singled out the "Ten Worst-Dressed Actresses in Films." Among the victims of the group's needlework; Lucille Ball ("Nothing she wears makes sense, blends or complements''), Anna Magnani ("Gives the impression of someone playing Macbeth in tramp clothing"), Anita Ekberg ("A 39-in. bust wearing a size 12 dress"), Millie Perkins ("A very dear and sweet person but much too honest in her refusal to correct nature's mistakes"), Shelley Winters ("Her style sense is totally unrelated to anything living or dead") and Brigitte Bardot ("It is difficult to associate Mlle. Bardot with...
...plate Lincoln Day dinner at the Waldorf, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller lived up to his reputation as the Republican Party's most dedicated back patter: enjoying himself hugely. Rocky slapped a slew of G.O.P. shoulder blades, even slung an affectionate arm around a handsome new bust of himself (by Italian Sculptor Gualberto Rocchi...
...Historian Sir Kenneth Clark contributed a 17th century unicorn horn; Sir Alister Hardy lent his mummified mermaid. From the museum's storerooms came the famed fabricated Piltdown man (TIME, Nov. 30, 1953), an Etruscan sarcophagus that was once the pride of the departments of antiquities, and the bust of Julius Caesar that graced the pages of Latin textbooks everywhere until in 1936 it was found to be a 19th century...
...nations are becoming more interdependent every day, the Western nations should look toward the day when they can cooperate more closely on fiscal policies, said Kennedy. He recommended a study to determine whether a new global financial agency should be founded to smooth out the cycles of boom-and-bust, surplus-and-deficit, by helping to regulate interest rates, money movements and fiscal policies throughout the non-Communist world. To create and join such a bank would require some sacrifice of economic sovereignty, but Jack Kennedy asked the Treasury to consider the idea...
...tempt Madame du Barry, who would probably have bought it if her protector, the goatish Louis XV, had not died of smallpox before the diamonds could be assembled. Antoinette, the new Queen, then seemed the ideal purchaser: her husband had the money, and she, possessing a 43½-inch bust, could set off 647 diamonds properly. But the Queen, exercising restraint for perhaps the only time in her career, said the necklace was too expensive...