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PICASSO: WOMEN, text by Hélène Parmelin. 199 pages. Editions Cercle d'Art and Harry N. Abrams, distributed by International Book Society, a division of Time Inc. $18. With the fond blessing of the master, Miss Parmelin, a Picasso student and familiar of his household, has assembled what amounts to a private exhibit: most of these 160 studies, here presented in stunning four-color plates, have not been shown before. The artist has illuminated many of them with his own comments, and has contributed the gay, gaudy "Picasso alphabet"-multicolor flourishes in chalk-that adorns Miss...
Contrary to popular notion, the President is not fond of those who continually say yes to him. He thrives on new ideas, new initiatives, innovations, fresh thinking. If a man consistently agrees and offers no new counter arguments, that man is soon not asked for advice...
...Continent,* picked a fiance with no private fortune. Son of an impoverished Prussian Junker, Von Amsberg worked his way through the University of Hamburg and up through the German Foreign Service to an administrative post in Bonn. Known to fellow diplomats as a Streber (go-getter), he is fond of fast cars-though an aging Porsche is all he can afford on a $400-a-month government salary. Thus, in many ways he resembles the penniless German princeling and junior executive who married Juliana in 1937 and became Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands. Besides, as Bernhard himself said last week...
...would think of those bones at bed time. We all became kind of fond of him," said Lynda Bird Johnson, 21, after spending ten days pecking away with trowel, whisk broom and dental pick to unearth a fragile, 700-year-old skeleton in a kiva (chamber) of an ancient Pueblo Indian settlement in wildest Arizona. Lynda roughed it with a team from the University of Arizona excavating near a place called Grasshopper. And while she was rolling that wheelbarrow around, guess what Sister Luci Baines was doing for wheels back in Washington: varooming through town...
...bowlegged, barelegged (except for anklet socks) toreador fleeing a rampaging bull in a Madrid ring. Or replaying his "Now a message from Alka-Seltzer," which was unexpectedly punctuated by a belch from Jonathan Winters. Or sending Richard Nixon to the piano and leading Bea Lillie off with a fond pat on her backside...