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...talks freely about delicate problems," said a Dispatch to the Quai d'Orsay. "He is a master at creating an atmosphere of relaxed tension." Recently, before deciding to go himself to Geneva, Khrushchev remarked at a garden party: "I trust Bulganin. No one has to hover at his elbow...
Where the military pioneered, citizens followed in vigorous and increasing waves. People who looked for a healthy climate, pleasant living, new opportunities and the freedom of elbow space found them in the desert. Modern technology was ready to help combat the desert's age-old barriers. A dozen years before, old settlers slept in wet sheets or went to bed in "submarines," welded metal boxes over which cooling water was pumped during the night. Now, at war's end, there was modern air cooling and refrigeration. In homes, offices and resorts, men found. they could live, work...
...approves." It also bears a list of specifications for Marilyke dresses, among them: "Full coverage for the bodice, chest, shoulders, back and arms," no cutouts lower than two inches below the neckline, no transparent or flesh-colored materials to give the impression of nudity, sleeves halfway between shoulder and elbow, nothing that will "unduly reveal the figure of the wearer...
...President's regular traveling companion is a burly Irishman from The Bronx, James Rowley. 46, the special agent in charge of the White House Detail. In crowded reception halls, he moves at the President's elbow; when the President makes an address, Rowley is a pace behind him, impassive and alert; when the President rides in a car, Rowley sits in the front seat. Rowley went to work as a bank investigator at 18, but continued to go to school nights, nine years later earned his law degree from Brooklyn's St. John's University...
About six weeks ago, Dickie Bland got the promise of the greatest privilege that can befall a provincial mayor: the opportunity to play official host to the Queen and her consort Prince Philip as they passed through town on a spring tour of the county. Delighted, Dickie plunged elbow-deep into plans for a gala reception at the town hall and a royal inspection of the local cotton mill. But then he learned that Her Majesty was to be attended at the visit by 100 rifle-bearing airmen of the R.A.F. Pacifist Mayor Bland appealed to a Lancashire county councillor...