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...through the pages of the Tatler and Queen. The British girl of average station wore cotton stockings and shapeless dresses, had the general air of somebody who couldn't care less-and couldn't afford it if she did. Misty climate produced the famed peaches-and-cream complexion. But for a poorly fed city girl, the result was merely chapped skin. The working girl, raised on a poor diet and less dentistry, aged early and not well...
...were apportioned to the Moslems (subdivided into three sects) and 54 to Christians (30 Maronite Roman Catholic, eleven Greek Orthodox, six Greek Catholic, four Armenian Orthodox, one Armenian Catholic, one Protestant, one miscellaneous minorities). This convention distinguishes Lebanon as the world's only free nation in which the complexion of Parliament can always be predicted...
...work as slave laborers building a new 1,500-mile railroad from China's Tsinghai province to Lhasa. Even with the present poor communications, Chinese settlers are already being moved in to take over Tibetan lands, and Tibetans are shipped away to points unknown to change the racial complexion of the people. But other thousands have fled into the mountains, where Chinese planes last week were powerless to strafe them out. Said one Tibetan traveler: "The Chinese will have to demolish our mountains to be free...
...week's end President Eisenhower, visibly fatigued underneath his sun-reddened complexion, joined President Frondizi at the picturesque (and safe) resort town of Llao Llao (pronounced Zhow Zhow) in the Andes, for two days of discussion and rest. As he got ready to fly on to Santiago and Montevideo this week, Ike could almost sense the friendlier feelings his trip had created, and most Latin Americans seemed to agree with the judgment of Brazil's Kubitschek: "I am fully convinced we are now entering a new phase of understanding and cooperation with our friends and allies, the North...
Naturally, their clothes get somewhat rumpled in all the excitement, and after almost a year underground, the supply of bully beef in their rucksacks has run low. But everyone shows a fine, ruddy complexion-zirconburn?-and not once has anybody made an unseemly proposal to the heroine. As a matter of fact, not even the villain is very wicked. The worst thing he does on the whole trip: he eats the duck...