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...their parents are all wrong. India is in that stage now, for it's just 16 years old. Everybody grumbles about taxes. But you can see the number of shops increasing, more people going to the cinema, more people going on holidays. Why, the mountain resorts are so chock-full that you can't find a bed anywhere...
...without its sense of discovery, if truth be told, there is less to a scoop than meets the eye. The giddy excitement of the St. Laurent show in Paris is partly real, partly a tempest in a B cup. Manhattan store windows and women's magazines were already chock-full of the new trends. Long before summer, Vogue Editor Diane Vreeland and best-dressed Viscountess Jacqueline de Ribes of fashion's Hall of Fame were wearing above-the-knee textured hose to all the best places-which automatically decrees the shape of things to come...
...reach of court decisions any longer." It Could Happen Anywhere. Birmingham therefore set off a chain reaction-uncontrolled. New lunch-counter sit-ins started in Atlanta, Nashville and Raleigh. The N.A.A.C.P. called for peaceful sympathy demonstrations in 100 cities. Jackie Robinson, now a vice president of Chock Full O' Nuts, said he would go to Birmingham to join in the Negro protest. So did Floyd Patterson. Communism was having a field day. Gloated Radio Moscow: "We have the impression that American authorities both cannot and do not wish to stop outrages by racists." Perhaps most baleful...
...Chock-full of tips for hungry readers, table-hopping Columnist Leonard Lyons, 56, wrote: "United Artists is importing 1,000 French tarts to serve with coffee at the premiere of Irma la Douce."' Before the line formed on the right, a U.A. spokesman tongue-in-cheeked: "That's just a little tart story, or vice versa...
...above all, keep us entertained, keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock-full-of-facts. I'm sure you can do it without studying if you try. We did. Best wishes, A GRADER