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...himself shocked at America's scandalous flab surplus. "I was out in a farm state* a few days ago, and I found that the women generally had a firmer grip than the men in a handshake," said Udall, who need not worry about the crunch in his own clasp. "I think that is a commentary on conditions today." Something had to give before Marilyn Monroe, 35, could snuggle into a bikini for the filming of Something's Got to Give, and what gave was 15 lbs. of Marilyn. Current poundage is classified, but Marilyn's waist...
Eastern Panic. As the refugee flow soared higher and higher, a U.S. Air Force Convair droned up the 110-mile corridor from West Germany one day last week and landed at West Berlin's Tempelhof Airport. Into the hot sun stepped Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 85, to clasp the welcoming hand of Berlin's Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt. For a few hours, both could forget that they are rivals in the campaign for the fall elections. "I have come here in a moment of crisis," declared Adenauer. "I intend to show that the Federal German Government and I personally...
...down, despairingly putting a hand to his eyes as if saying to himself, "What imbecility! To risk my life for this!" General Challe, erect and unrepentant, spoke eloquently, if not always to the point. Challe thought his insurrection had been aimed at saving Algeria's Moslems from the clasp of the F.L.N. rebels...
...rare moments of privacy last week, fast-running Jack Kennedy was restless and tense. He fidgeted with his tie clasp, rolled and squeezed a magazine or tapped his feet. All surface signs were pointing to a Kennedy victory, but the Democrats had a good dose of down-to- the-wire nervousness over Dwight Eisenhower's all-out support for Nixon, and over the nagging question of the religion vote...
...comment, but a Navy man said admiringly: "They do write good letters down in Muscat." Fact is the British Consul General has little else to do, apart from requesting manumission for escaping slaves, who by tradition become entitled to freedom if they can manage to enter his compound and clasp both hands around his flagpole...