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Slow-Motion Passes. For himself, Capote had selected a 39? domino mask from F.A.O. Schwarz; it was bested for economy by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 82-year-old daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. She had shopped around and got a similar mask for 4? less. But few of the other ladies tried to pare expenses; some spent $600 and more for their extravaganzas. Rose Kennedy picked out several masks in case she changed her mind, finally settled on an elaborate domino with towering egret plumes. Mrs. Henry Ford II came wearing a white organdy butterfly...
...into action in the air and an ensuing buildup on the ground, the nations of the crescent have stood up and gone their own way with a new assurance that Chinese Communism need not be the battering wave of the future. There is no longer much talk of the "domino theory," which held that the fall of Viet Nam would be followed in quick succession by the fall of other nations in the area, precisely because no one any longer talks seriously of the fall of Viet Nam-or feels like a domino...
...such aids as the Milton Bradley Co.'s Modern Mathematics Kindergarten Kit, a motley of geometric shapes, animal cutouts and numbers in felt ($3). Kenworthy Educational Service, Inc. has put out Programmed Reading Aids, a series with ten flip cards of words ($2.50), perception cards showing figures, domino patterns and numbers ($1), and such 65? workbooks as I Learn to Read and Primary Count and Color. More informative for parents is a record-booklet package, Teaching Jonny's Sister to Read ($4.95), in which Cambridge Housewife Henny Wenkart instructs her 4½-year-old daughter in reading...
...Fats Domino...
Harvard began with a lively presentation of Hans Leo Hassler's "Cantate Domino." Their major effort was the "Quatre petites Prieres de Sainte Francois d'Assise," by Francis Poulenc, and they sang this difficult work masterfully. The closest the Crimson came to English folksongs was Richard Dering's "Cease thy affections to avoid her reproving." Although the Princeton boy in front of me couldn't resist snickering at the lyrics, the song was charming...