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Least Tedious Performance by a Supporting Actress: to Designer Edith Head, who doggedly plays herself in a party sequence for a second...
Members of Congress are reluctant to do away with a system that has been such a popular success. Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.), the President's choice to steer his health-education package through Congress, has said the House is unlikely to go along with Johnson unless he offers "concrete guarantees that no one will be hurt" by phasing out the NDEA. Rep. John Brademas (D-Ind.), who serves on the House Committee on Education and Labor with Mrs. Green, has predicted that the President will face fierce fights in both houses...
...most marketable exports, is queen of the lemon-flavored café song known as fado. (Fado literally means fate and is always cruel.) Amalia's new album, called the Soul of Portugal (Columbia), contains a dozen fados (Corner of Sin, Useless Angel), similar in mood to Edith Piaf's chansons but stamped with Portuguese rhythms and Amalia's tangy timber...
...Edith Green (D-Ore.), a high-ranking member of the Committee and the person who may steer Johnson's entire education program through the House, predicted last night that Congress may offer some opposition to the current plan and "a good deal more" to the proposal to end NDEA loans. "We think the NDEA loan program has been a success, and we will need concrete guarantees that no one will be hurt if we change it," she said
...troops admired her $8,000 feathered and beaded Balmain so much that finally one G.I. came up, said Carroll, and murmured, " 'Gee, how about just one of those feathers?' I said O.K., and that started it." The boys "deplumed" her. Since the $7,000 Edith Head number "just disintegrated in the heat, mud and rain," the poor child didn't have a thing to wear coming home to Hollywood. Except, of course, some fatigues that marines donated, along with battle patches, flyers' wings, and four bright stars from General William Westmoreland, the Man of the Year...