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...charity balls-triple the number five years ago-that will gross about $45 million. Every charity worthy of its name-and some not so worthy-aspires to have its own ball, does its best to capture top-ranking socialites for its committee. The socialites themselves, overwhelmed in the crush, resort to selling one another tickets ($50 or $100 each) on the basis of "I'll come to your ball if you come to mine...
...crush was bacteriology. Her desire to learn about it drove Polly's marks up to Phi Beta Kappa level, and it was pure interest, not career ambition. "I just had to find out about those little bacteria," she says. Polly went from Vassar to graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, where the workings of bacteria were being intensively studied...
...should send so many troops into Katanga that they would completely crush the Katanga army and if they should install a Leopoldville, U.N.-approved government, what would be the difference from what the Russians did in Hungary? Not much, I believe...
Tshombe then blithely took on more sizable opponents by charging that there was a U.S. "plot" to use U.N. troops to crush Katanga and bring about the unification of the Congo. Stunned reporters were told that Katanga would "ask for and accept Russian help"-despite the fact that the Soviet Union has long denounced Tshombe as a "Belgian stooge" kept in power only by the backing of Western capitalists. European diplomats testily dismissed this attempted blackmail of the West and the U.N. as a piece of "dangerous skulduggery...
...short, unfitted boop-a-doop look, had been inaugurated by Dior's A-shape; this year the alphabet has yielded a softer, swirlier letter as a theme-S. At the end of a week studded with the usual fashion-show crises (Red Cross ambulances stood by for crush victims, models fainted as Zippers caught, Designer Michel Goma was rushed to the hospital with appendicitis), the trend was clear: this year's styles-though not yet ready to hug-make tentative overtures toward the female figure...