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...inauguration, though he had supported Richard Nixon in the election. One thought he kept with him from the ill-fated 1948 campaign. "The American dream," he said then, "is a dream of the prophets of old-the dream of each man living in peace under his own vine and fig tree." It was a dream that Henry Wallace helped fulfill for every American who lives by the soil...
...that some of the most beautiful, unspoiled beaches in the world are to be found between two remote little towns named Antalya and Anamur on the south coast of Turkey. Framed against the Taurus mountain range that rises sharply to the north, and edged with orange, lemon, olive and fig trees, the 100-mile "Turkish Riviera" is every adventurer's midsummer daydream come true. It offers every variety of beach, from powdered sand to pebble to worn rocks. Here and there, cool mountain streams spill over steep cliffs into small, semitropical coves, and everywhere unexploited ruins lend...
...suggests 200,000 motives, and a reconciliation is followed by the usual palaver about love, life and sleeping arrangements. They must curb their "primeval ahneemal appetites," says Gina, but she can't curb the bohemian in herself. In protest against unnamed bureaucrats who have requisitioned a fig leaf for a work of art, she defiantly agrees to march on the U.S. embassy just as Rock's boss arrives there. Gina appears as promised, sitting astride a white horse a la Lady Godiva, filling a flesh-toned body stocking that rolls all the way up to the neck. There...
...could have come from any place east of Sweden. Eve is now a Swedish girl named Ulla Bergryd who has been accustomed to stalking about in only long tresses while paparazzi keep leaping out of the foliage to take her picture. Huston has decided that there will be no fig leaves after the Fall. He said he tried aprons of fig leaves but "they looked too much like G strings." Instead, Adam and Eve will clutch whole branches of vine leaves to hide their nakedness...
...week's end, out of the chaos in Saigon emerged still another leader fig ure of sorts: Dr. Nguyen Xuan Oanh. 43, who was Khanh's Vice-Premier for Finance. Oanh (pronounced Juan) announced that he had been appointed "Acting Premier" by the 60-day caretaker regime. A Harvard-trained Ph.D. in economics, who was out of Viet Nam for 16 years prior to Diem's fall, Oanh taught economics at Connecticut's Trinity College for five years, later worked for the U.N.'s International Monetary Fund. He is an amateur artist, is so Americanized...