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...with big plans donned top hat and swallow-tailed coat and, surrounded by an escort of sword-bearing Indian guards, called at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi. U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith, a shade under 7 ft. tall in his topper (6 ft. 8 in. without it), could hardly have picked a more propitious moment to meet with Indian officials: the U.S. was about to offer $1 billion for basic development projects over the next two years if the other members of the "Aid to India Club," Britain, Canada, West Germany and Japan, matched the contribution...
Buttoning Up. Challe paced the lobby of the building, puffing furiously on his pipe. Salan shivered from the cold. His wife kissed Salan, tied a white silk scarf around his neck, helped him into a trench coat and buttoned him up like a child. The two men walked out to a convoy of the ist Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment, climbed into trucks with their troopers and drove off into the night...
...sequence, shot while the starvation was at its postwar worst, that shows a well-dressed, obviously cultivated man, his coat laid neatly aside and his sleeves rolled tidily to his elbows, squatting on a main thoroughfare in Berlin and hacking savagely with a butcher's knife at the bloated corpse of a horse...
Died. Guy Goldthorp Butler, 74, an Iowa politician who was known as "the shirtsleeve senator" of the state's upper house, where coat and tie is the rule, once a practicing dentist whose five-year career as tooth puller to the royal household of King Rama VI of Siam ended in 1921 when an auto accident injured his arm; of a heart attack; in Des Moines...
...Kerr with critical accuracy, "am a hell of a lot neater than she is.") She buys enough cosmetics to underwrite a television program, spends hours and fortunes at the hairdresser, but cares little for clothes, buying cut-rate bargains. She has been wearing the same grey-fur-collared cloth coat to Broadway openings for years, frequently with a button missing...