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...days in Vermont she returned to set those "silly stories'' straight. "My dad is an accountant, not a coal miner.'' she said, "and I was born in Brookline, Massachusetts.'' She did indeed live in Pennsylvania for a while, but it was in upper-crust Bucks County, with her divorced mother and stepfather. "He's an architect." College? Well. no. "College was just impossible." So after high school she went to work as a girl guide in a Bethlehem Steel plant, and then it was on to New York and the Plaza Five modeling...
Sources close to the crust indicated last night that Miss Shirley Booth, Academy Award winning actress for her role in Come Back Little Sheba, will receive the Hasty Pudding's Woman-of-the-Year award some time early next spring...
Members of the upper crust, of course, have always had their country cottages for getting out of town when the weather was hard to take. The Emperor Tiberius, for one. used to beat the Roman heat on the cliffs of Capri, where some of the house guests at his verdant Villa Jovis were said to have disappeared into the sea below. Perhaps the most famed second house of all is the exquisite Petit Trianon, begun by Louis XV for his mistress. Madame de Pompadour, and elaborated by Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette. From the punkah-hung summer bungalows...
Over to Venice. Rich people have always traveled, and the upper crust has always been basically international. But the jet plane has raised the mobility of the well-heeled to the point where national boundaries blur, distances telescope, and the only trouble is trying to figure out what time it is. Just getting around is a kind of admission ticket to the International Set. "The main thing is to be seen in enough right places often enough," said Photographer Zerbe over his shoulder as he hopped a jet in Paris for Rome. "If you're seen at St.-Moritz...
Disturbances in the earth's crust generate primary and Secondary (P and S) waves which pass through the crust, as well as Long (L) waves, which travel around the surface of the earth. If these waves are generated by an earthquake, Leet tried to show through his slides, the P waves die first. But if they are generated by a blast, stations located sufficiently far from the event will record P waves long after the others have faded...