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...first week, and seven of them would have made it without us. But for 32, we've been a godsend." Yet most of the students still must survive a year or more of high school back in their home environment, where this summer's glow can easily fade. "When you aspire, like they say," wonders one Negro boy, "don't you get slapped down that much easier?" Aware of this problem, many project leaders have assigned home-town counselors to keep in touch with the kids and to keep them Upward Bound...
...flowers that fill Chagall's home in Vence you report: "The moment they begin to fade, the artist prods his wife to throw them out." The contrasting attitude of Pierre Bonnard is interesting. In an interview some years after Bonnard's death, his longtime housemaid said that one of her despairs was the master's way with the bouquets she brought in from the garden daily. Not until they were ready to throw out did he show interest in them; then, when that first shine was off and petals were falling, he began to paint them...
...second week in a row, American and Australian troops probed the Red redoubt of Zone D, but this time the Communists did not fade back into the jungle. After B-52 bombers from Guam had softened the zone with two bomb runs, the Reds made a stand in a fortified village, catching a company of U.S. paratroopers under crossfire with two machine guns. The Americans took out one gun with rifle grenades, then charged the second. The Reds broke and ran, dragging bodies with them through their escape tunnels. "There was blood all over that trench," said an American first...
...fade has been carried onto the beach this summer. Not since the days of the Victorian heroine, when pallor was considered a sign of gentle breeding, has the pale pale look been so sought after. The glowing, suntanned American beauty is being replaced in many places by the unsunkissed miss hiding herself under a ruffly parasol, straight out of Gone With the Wind. "Tanning ages skin," says Evelyn Marshall. "It etches those lines around the eyes and mouth." As another expert put it, "The cordovan look is definitely out, and this applies to the whole body, not just the face...
Vocally, Miss Dee's lack of Shakespearean experience is evident. Final phrases often fade into inaudibility, and she tends to drop final consonants in words like "mind" and "thousand." Her long concluding speech, wherein, tamed at last, she talks of wifely duty, comes out choppy, lacking shape and flow...