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Last week the television industry looked up from its crystal ball and spoke of the future in big, bold terms...
...next morning at 7 he was breakfasting in the Jefferson's mirror-hung Crystal Room with the particular segment of the 35th closest to his heart: the aging warriors of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, whom he had commanded in France. That afternoon, while 250,000 people cheered along St. Louis' sun-baked downtown streets, he led them-and the rest of the 35th - in a 16-block parade...
...matter except that we are part of the community. My body is only incidental. It's my spirit that's the real Garry Davis. And my spirit is certainly part of the spiritual whole of the world . . . To me it's all clear as crystal." The officiating minister, not seeing things so clearly, refused to sign the marriage certificate. Then the newlyweds walked off to be conventionally remarried by Justice of the Peace Boyd Blaisdell. Audrey reluctantly accepted a light jacket as protection against the nippy Maine spring, protesting that "Our love will keep us warm...
...silk-gowned, straw-bonneted officials wore different buttons according to their rank-from ruby red down through worked coral, smooth coral, pale blue, dark blue, crystal, ivory and gold. But they all talked the same line. They referred to presents from the British Crown as "tribute." They insisted silkily that matters of commerce could wait. Much more important-was the British ambassador ready to kowtow...
When U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas, 51, suffered his near-fatal accident on Washington's Crystal Mountain (TIME, Oct. 10), he was no Eastern greenhorn in search of a thrill, but a mountain-climbing veteran who could trace his experience all the way back to his Yakima, Wash, boyhood. "Peanuts" Douglas took to climbing the sagebrush-covered foothills after a childhood attack of infantile paralysis left him a puny, spindly-legged weakling. In a few years the boy whose physique had barred him from strenuous sports was spending long weeks wandering over the sheer Cascades, sometimes toting...