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...sort of getup hardly raises an eyebrow. In France, it's something new, and that helps to explain why Antoine is the biggest thing there since Scotch. His records are out selling Charles Aznavour, Yves Montand and Johnny Hallyday combined. Wherever he goes, the kids-the girls, especially - engulf him. At Paris' Olympia Music Hall, it took 35 flics to keep back the girls, who retaliated by littering the stage with their panties. "Never in French show business," marvels Maurice Chevalier, who ought to know, "has an artist reached the top so fast." It may be carrying...
...policy-makers to recognize the spirit and intelligence he represents. Or, like Stevenson before him, this man--who forsaw the cataclysm of the Bay of Pigs, who forsaw the neutralism of Tito, who now for-sees more Santo Domingos--can fall silent and allow the Consensus to engulf and encyst...
...Threat. Louisianans were too weary to panic when Army engineers reported that a barge loaded with 600 tons of liquid chlorine was missing. If the chlorine should escape, the engineers warned, a wave of deadly gas might engulf the delta. (Civilian chemists disagreed, said it might even help purify the polluted water.) The river was closed to shipping for 40 miles below Baton Rouge while the Army brought in 116,000 gas masks, and a flotilla of Navy and Coast Guard ships searched for the barge. When divers finally found it after five days, its chlorine tanks were intact...
...edge," he said. "It is not just an American dream." Johnson pointed out that nearly 50% of all nations have populations that are 50% or more illiterate. Said the President: "Unless the world can find a way to extend the light, the force of that darkness may engulf...
Sherbet-Soft Colors. The problem is that Louis and Noland are pioneer explorers who need vast spaces to give their quest a sense of achievement. Even the best tapestry would be ridiculous as a doily, and their Cinemascopic canvases only achieve their effect when they engulf the viewer's vision. Their works often run from baseboard to ceiling and as wide as 18 ft. This large format must impose itself like a looming display of northern lights to achieve a scale that inflames the imagination...