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...average of 20 minutes each hour. Capital traffic is also disrupted by a flock of 400 sheep that has to cross the highway, as well as the hay wagons that occasionally break down in town. In time, foreigners learn to take such quaint delays in their stride. "C'est si Bonn," they shrug...
...song A Secretary Is Not a Toy (Une Secrétaire N'Est Pas une Poupée), he was confronted with this one: "Her pad is to write in and not to spend the night in." Parisians could be expected to understand the sentiment but not the beat idiom. Castans settled for a weak substitute: in translation, "Her place is at the office and not at the Lido...
...World in Vogue observes only major changes in fashion (such as Patou's drop of hemlines in 1930, Dior's New Look in 1947, and the chemise in 1958). The volume ends on a most sophisticated note, with the mischievous, tongue-in-cheek observation: "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose...
...Vice-President, Lyndon B. Johnson, was sworn in as the thirty-sixth President of the United States at 3:39 p.m. (EST) on the Presidential plane at Dallas' Love Field...
...EST) three shot rang out from a nearby building. Two hit the President, one in the head and one in the neck, and one wounded Connally in the side...