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...differences were real, and some of them remain. Neither in Sir Anthony Eden's resignation nor in Macmillan's assumption of office has there been any British acknowledgment of regret for its Suez invasion: it is generally regarded in Britain as a failure, but not a mistake. Selwyn Lloyd, Eden's Foreign Secretary, is still on the job, six months after Suez. The mood of the British press last week, as Nasser threw up new difficulties after Israel's withdrawal from his territory, was to crow at the U.S.: "I told you so." London papers, which...
Just a little over a year ago, the owner of a small Miami nightspot gave her job at $125 a week ("It seemed like fortune"). Then Walter Winchell spottec her, and Miami Beach's Eden Roc Hotel hired Roberta at $1,700 a week. Decca Records signed her. Now she makes as much as $5,000 a week...
Jaded Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, 62, creaked into Manhattan from his suburban sanctuary to attend the wedding of his most recent (ninth) exwife, sometime Burlesqueen Anita Roddy-Eden, 34, and India-born Cinemactor John (Tonight We Raid Calais) Sutton. Making a grand entrance at the scene of the civil ceremony, a hotel library, Anita gazed fondly at her discarded mate and his successor, cooed: "Darlings, I want you both!" Quipped the groom: "Have you got an extra wedding ring, Tommy? I forgot mine." Later, Playboy Manville recalled the nuptials with elation: "It was the happiest day of my life-a wedding...
...soon a figure of history, Britain's resigned Prime Minister, ailing Sir Anthony Eden, 59, arrived for a month's rest in New Zealand after a 35-day voyage from England by way of the Pacific. Wan and drawn, Sir Anthony perked up on sighting his chosen garden of Eden, crisply observed: "Now I have no plans. I am just at the mercy of your wise government and your...
Author Madison Jones, 31, an assistant professor of English at Alabama Polytechnic, dresses some of his sentences in self-conscious Sunday-best. Images that arrest also often manacle the narrative. But in his bewildered hero bent on restoring a lost Eden, Author Jones has found an apt symbol for the current Southern temper, restive and occasionally violent under edicts which seem to threaten cherished folkways. In a fictional amber as reflective as it is rhetorical, he has fixed the unchanging pathos of social change...