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...economics, in which he argued that the way to get the peso on a par with the dollar was to "lock up all Colombians with money outside the country and not let them go until they bring back the $3 billion they have hidden abroad." His daughter Maria Eugenia Rojas de Moreno Diaz, 30, who ran for the Senate, turned up in the smaller towns to buy rice, yucca and corn at the marketplace. Then she set up a booth to resell them at a half or a third of the price, telling everyone, "This is how much it will...
...husband may be in that line of work, but the lady will have none of it. "In Detroit," said Mrs. Henry Ford II, 37, to the New York Herald Tribune's Eugenia Sheppard, "I am known as the bicycle girl. I can't drive a car." Not one of those things her husband makes, anyway. "I used to drive in Italy with a small, little car," explained the former Maria Cristina Vettore Austin, "but over here I don't even try. American cars look too big on me." Nowadays Cristina just leaps onto Stepson Edsel...
Those who did have the Courreges to fight the mob included Baby Jane Holzer, Marion Javits, Cyd Charisse, and in the train, massaging his temples, a harassed Huntinaton Hartford. But the cynosure of all thighs was Arthur-coiffed Rudolf Nureyev, whose lap, noted Fashion Writer Eugenia Sheppard, "was the most 'in' place for any woman to be Wednesday night." Rudi had an embrace for Tennessee Williams, but f rugged first with Sybil...
...also proposed. Lady Bird invited him to Karnack to meet her father. Cap Taylor was impressed: "Lady, you've brought home a lot of boys. This time you've brought a man." But Lyndon scarcely seemed the man of Lady Bird's dreams. Eugenia Lassater recalls that "when we would talk about getting married, Bird would just say she wanted a nice man and a big white house with a fence around it and a big collie dog. She wanted a nice nine-to-five man. A John Citizen." Nevertheless, on Nov. 17, 1934, barely two months...
...inheritance advance from her father and paid for the victorious campaign. The Johnsons soon jumped to a relatively comfortable $10,000 Congressman's salary, but Lady Bird did not yet get the hang of buying the right clothes. "She was still tacky," says Eugenia Lassater, "so I told her to turn herself over to a department store and let them dress her. Bird has credited me with teaching her how to dress. But it was the store." (Even today she is no fashion plate. Washington society writers have caught her wearing the same beige turban for months...