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Punctually at 10 o'clock, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, clad in befitting banker's grey, marched into the hearing room and, at the urging of newspaper photographers, shook hands and matched smile for smile with Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills. Once the hearing got under way, smiles faded from all faces...
...Tanny reducing course. He weighs in at 303 lbs., and his stomach is roughly the size and shape of a medicine ball. Yet Koki Naya, known professionally as Taiho (loosely, "Giant Bird"), makes upward of $50,000 a year for practicing his specialty, and when he appears, clad in a loincloth, his long hair bundled in a topknot, he sends shivers of delight through the bobby-sox set. At 22, Taiho is the youngest grand champion in the history of sumo wrestling, one of the world's oldest sports...
...change of flowers from time to time. "I get sheer pleasure out of painting that hat," he says. In any case, the device of painting hatted nudes seems to be uniquely Johnson's. Even the supremely nonchalant grisette caught picnicking in the buff with a brace of fully clad gentlemen in Manet's Le Déjeuner sur I'Herbe had the delicacy to remove her picture hat before sitting down to lunch...
...Togo, the nightmare began shortly after midnight. Disturbed by strange sounds in his comfortable house in the capital city of Lomé, Olympio grabbed a pistol and went to the head of the stairs. There, to his consternation, was a crowd of mutinous soldiers crowding the floor below. Barefoot, clad in shorts and sport shirt, Olympio leaped through a window onto the soft, sandy earth of his garden...
...City License Commissioner Bernard J. O'Connell denied the club a cabaret license, arguing that the Bunnies' costumes left too much to be desired.* "It would appear clear," he ruled, "that the applicant's main appeal to its prospective customers is the lure of its scantily clad waitresses," who are "using the costume as a lure for the purpose of pushing liquor...