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...Andrew Tully and the Chicago Daily News's William McGaffin, the Queen was "a doll, a living" doll." The Post also, thought she was "a honey." Manhattan tabloid headlines called her Liz, and the Chicago Daily News's Robert E. Hoyt paid the ultimate democratic compliment: "But for the grace of God, she'd be plain Lizzie Battenberg...
...they're no different from anyone else.'' exclaimed a Canadian housewife as she watched Queen Elizabeth and her husband exchange knowing glances and share a common smile before the television cameras this week. It was a pretty compliment, but obviously something of an understatement as well; whatever the young person who stands as the embodiment of sovereign authority to some 640 million of the world's people is, she cannot, in the very nature of things, be like "everyone else." Four cover stories in the past 28 years have traced the career of Queen Elizabeth from...
...THOSE perplexing Argentines," U.S. -Ambassador James Bruce cried when he returned from Buenos Aires in 1949. The Argentines love soccer, bathtubs, the opera and gastronomy (even for a pretty senorita their customary compliment is: "What a pudding!"). They will not stand for traffic lights, and their stately capital has none. For a flamboyant decade the proud and cultured Argentines were ruled by a wastrel dictator. Now the bill has been presented, and a grim-lipped general who prizes honor and uprightness is struggling to repay the account. See HEMISPHERE, The Rocky Road Back...
...gushed a remarkable torrent of praise. Even Arkansas' Democrat William Fulbright. who had often delighted in baiting Dulles, called the revised aid program "wise and imaginative." As Dulles flushed redder than his wine-colored tie, Vermont's Republican George Aiken topped it all off. "I want to compliment you." he said, "on the compliments you have received...
...fidelity to detail would have whitened a Hollywood censor's hair overnight. More books and more movies followed, each proclaiming in brutish simplicity the joys of pointless violence and casual lust. The first novel lent its name to the cult of its worshipers, and the worshipers returned the compliment by doing their best to imitate the book. Mostly the offspring of well-heeled parents, Ishihara's characters and Ishihara's fans alike spend their days and nights in unconscious parody of another lost generation, pouring endless drinks down gullets apparently lined with copper, necking for hours...