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Lady Bird's accession to the White House did precipitate some clatter of dismay, however. "I suppose," cooed Nicole Alphand, wife of the French Ambassador to the U.S., "that now we will all have to learn to do zee bar-bee-cue." That has not yet become a problem, but Lady Bird has done her bit for zee folk music. Already a guitar-whacking bunch of folk singers called the New Christy Minstrels have entertained at a state dinner for Italy's President Segni, and Lady Bird recently capped a banquet for United Nations Secretary-General U Thant...
Seduction on the Seine. Meanwhile, a tough little Balkan swallow was flitting around Paris, much to Nikita's further dismay. He was Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Premier of Rumania and the first East European satellite Prime Minister to pay an official visit to a NATO country. For the Rumanians, who are defiantly determined to push ahead with full-scale industrialization of their country, the visit was a gesture designed to show Khrushchev that they would neither accept the grocery-store and gas-station role he wants to assign them in Comecon (the Kremlin's Common Market), nor would they...
...unite yourselves with unbelievers," St. Paul told the first Christians of Corinth. To the surprise and dismay of their fellow Britons, more than 10,000 members of the Exclusive Brethren sect are currently trying to take the injunction literally and separate themselves from the rest of society...
...vast extent of our frontiers, by haphazard legislation piled up over the years, by a lack of definite means of combatting it." Communism? Not this time. The official was bemoaning a corrupting force that antedates even Marx-the legion of Latin American smugglers who, to the policeman's dismay and consumer's delight, control some 20% of Latin America's import trade...
...Governor Scranton's belated entry into the Republican presidential race last week, most U.S. newspapers correctly assumed that Barry Goldwater had the nomination sewed up. And most, large and small, didn't like it. Seldom has a presidential candidate-especially a potential Republican leader -evoked such dissatisfaction, dismay and wrath from the cartoonists and editorial writers of the U.S. press...