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...footlights in a minicar with a Plexiglas dome, and presented another wearing pingpong balls pasted on her oversized sunglasses. Cecil Beaton sketched. Lauren Bacall applauded. Katharine Hepburn hid out from photographers. Coco Chanel curled up on the salon stairway while her collection was shown and coolly surveyed the crush below. But then Chanel has been around long enough to know that nothing very extraordinary was going on. Nothing but the Paris fall fashion showings-and the first glimpse of the season's changes...
...missionaries who followed Explorer Henry Morton Stanley. But after the old king's death, the ruler's dissolute heir did not; the young man resented the fact that his Christian pages refused his homosexual advances. Finally, egged on by a jealous Prime Minister, the Kabaka determined to crush the new religion, and in one bloody, 15-month period, beginning in 1885, ordered the murders or executions of 22 Catholics and at least 23 Anglicans. Paul declared the Catholic martyrs saints...
Union leaders charge that the M.T.A. in the past year scrapped 175 old cars that it badly needs now to maintain service; the M.T.A. replies that the cars were beyond repair. A conductor recently explained the passenger crush on a rush-hour train by saying: "We are one car short of normal-and normal is two cars short of what we are supposed to have...
...openings, plus the usual Fourth of July holiday crush, combined to make last week the busiest in Las Vegas' history. Hotels were jammed, switchboards hopelessly overloaded, gamblers stacked six deep at the craps and blackjack tables. TIME Correspondent Jon Larsen and Writer Charles Parmiter were on hand to record the frenetic scene. Their impressions...
...Aviation Administration this week will begin limiting the number of takeoffs and landings during peak periods at five of the busiest U.S. airports. The five: Chicago's O'Hare, New York's John F. Kennedy and La Guardia, Newark and Washington's National. During the crush from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at J.F.K., for example, the number of flights will be held to 90 per hour, 20 fewer than the highs of last summer, when two-hour delays were common...