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...Star Reporter Betty Beale was so startled that she wrote a story next day listing all the shattered precedents. Among them: newsmen were allowed to mingle with guests, hors d'oeuvres were fancier than ever, guests were welcomed as soon as they arrived instead of waiting in a corridor, four abreast, for a formal presidential handshake. Even routine ceremony had a new style. Jacqueline Kennedy opened the Heart Fund drive by posing with twin beneficiaries of heart surgery, Donna and Debbie Horst, 6. When the pictures were over, she gave each one a tiny gold heart charm with...
...back with a perfect alibi before the warden knows he is gone. But just before he can put his plan into effect, the friendly old turnkey is replaced by Sergeant Sidney ("Sour") Crout, who is notoriously "the most wickid screw what ever crep' down a prison corridor." Best scene occurs in a prison quarry, where an "accidental" blast blows Sergeant Crout to comical tatters and leaves him staring at the audience with an expression like the can't-win cat in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. Best line belongs to Sellers. "Four years we've been gaoin...
...General Byron R. ("Whizzer") White (Law '46). Yale has already lost three faculty men to Kennedy, expects to lose two more, including Dean of the Law School Eugene V. Rostow. The next four years seem certain to produce countless occasions when Yaleman will meet Yaleman in a Washington corridor and growl: "You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much...
Vital Stake. Seldom had the winds of war blown about such artless heads. But the danger was nonetheless clear and present. Six years of Pathet Lao insurrection had kept the countryside in turmoil, and had thus made Laos a corridor through which North Viet Nam moved men and supplies to support its guerrillas operating in South Viet Nam. This was a stake that the Communists were not prepared to lose. The Russian news agency Tass warned darkly that U.S. "intervention" could lead to "a second Korea." With the Russians supplying one side and the U.S. the other, the possibility...
...From the corridor outside the committee room in the House of Commons, the sound of muffled shouts and strident interjections suggested a pitched battle. But it was only a meeting of 253 Laborite M.P.s, debating whether Hugh Gaitskell should be re-elected leader of Britain's Labor Party...