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...born Johan Franco. During the hour-long tintinnabulation, the principals and their guests will arrive under the unblinking scrutiny of TV. Inside-mercifully beyond reach of electronic peeping-the company and a pool of newsmen will see the father of the bride decked out in the formal regalia, morning coat and striped trousers, that he refused to don for the presidential inauguration in 1965. While the organist plays Paraphrase on a Trumpet Tune by Henry Purcell, the wedding party-mostly young friends and schoolmates of the bride and groom-will shepherd its charge up a 400-ft. marble aisle...
...giants is not always sweetly harmonious, and over the years there has been less interchange of ideas than the Institute would have liked. The young mathematicians talk mainly to each other, probably because no one else can understand them. Older continental scholars frown at younger types who lunch without coat and tie. Some U.S. social scientists quietly sneer at the work of their European counterparts as pedantic and isolated from contemporary currents. Yet since most of the scholars are at the top of their fields, there is little jockeying for prestige and plenty of mutual respect. "This is a sort...
...role. He has grown so used to the limelight that the public figure and the private man have fused and become virtually indistinguishable; his handsome wife Marion complains, only half in jest, that even at home he will not answer a question without clearing his throat and buttoning his coat. When approached by a streetwalker late one night in Manhattan, the Senator introduced himself, shook her hand and proceeded to solicit her vote. He loves his eminence and supports it with a sober single-mindedness matched by few, if any, of his colleagues...
...Mediterranean at a cost to the U.S. of $1,000,000 had yet to transmit a single syllable; studies are now under way on how to utilize it. Another time, Mansfield's office noticed that 151 Jeeps destined for Thailand were being repainted green, though their original blue coat was in perfectly good condition, halted the paint job, and saved $12,000. In all, Secretary of State Dean Rusk told...
...Lord Baden-Powell are dimly imagined by contemporary cynics to be a rustic army of bug-eyed idealists. Scripture that commanded pious respect when the Boy Scouts were chartered by Congress 50 years ago now seems laughably quaint. "If you notice a Scout badge on a boy's coat lapel," the Boy Scout Handbook still bugles, "give him the Scout salute. He may need your help...