Word: debut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with pink and green rosebuds ("It's my very best"), she had a smile for every visitor and tapped her foot delicately when the Marine Band played her own request: Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Said the First Lady, pleased by her daughter's White House social debut: "I'd much rather she learned these things firsthand than have her hear us talking about them upstairs...
FOREIGN POLICY. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, in his press-conference debut, reflected his boss's new caution in foreign affairs by turning back virtually all questions with the grey answer that the matter was "under study." Clearly, Kennedy was treading water while he found his own personal bearings. One top-rung State Department adviser 'backgrounded' reporters on the news that the U.S. had asked the Soviet Union to leave crucial East-West issues alone while the new Administration re-examined policy, or expect the toughest possible response to crisis. (To such nonsense, Moscow backgrounded a predictable...
...former resident of Scarsdale and its "organized acquiescence," my hat is off to the young woman who turned down her debut to the "Hollow Ball." I remember many times the heartbreak of young people who were not accepted in other organizations of top importance-school-frowned-upon sororities and fraternities...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* An adaptation of the Jean Anouilh comedy, Time Remembered, with Dame Edith Evans, in her American TV debut, and Christopher Plummer. Color...
...Wonder Chief Designer Yves St. Laurent. When St. Laurent, after an unhappy stint in the French army, "retired" from Dior two months ago because of "ill health," Bohan, one of the few married male couturiers in Paris, took over. Few in Paris expected much from his debut, and St. Laurent fans were openly hostile. Admitted the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard: "I had a poisoned typewriter ribbon ready...