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...office. She accepts. Some hours later, the ride ends in Miami, where the Texan's two-motor transport lands. He phones ahead to a local inn, and, lo, Lauren is led a few minutes later to a sumptuous suite where vases are filled with roses, tables laden with fruit, closets packed with gowns, shelves lined with hats, and bureau drawers jammed with whatever else a rich Texan's Cinderella should put on and take off. Sizing things up, Lauren decides that her lunch hour has lasted long enough and starts back for the office. When her admirer catches...
...Labrador, and another landed by prearrangement in England. Every detail had been attended to: worldwide communications and weather services, precisely timed geographical check points, State Department clearance, stand-by refueling planes. For the flyers themselves, there was steak (cut into bite-size pieces), canned chicken, ice-cold milk, fruit juice, soup, freshly baked cakes, candy bars. At four or five strategic places along the route (the exact number is secret), the jet-age birds dropped down from their 40,000-ft.-plus altitude to drink in tons of fuel, delivered at prop-age altitudes by four-engined KC-97 Stratotankers...
...like to see themselves. To Vicky, 42, Sir Anthony Eden is a toothy, decrepit aristocrat, his Conservative colleagues a band of feckless manikins. Vicky's Eden in the last four months has ranged from a knobby-kneed Adam, who is persuaded to bite into the forbidden fruit by a seductive French Eve, to a desert-island castaway brooding over a phonograph full of ancient hits, e.g., The Last Time I Saw Paris, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Last week Vicky derided Tory Leader R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan and Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd as Eton-collared...
...Syria was always friendly to the U.S. except during the bad times of Mr. Truman." Kuwatly recalled that just after World War I, Syrians had asked for U.S. in preference to French mandate rule, and he brought up a familiar subject: "All our trouble with you has been the fruit of the Jews...
...shot TV show, he did Secret Life for no pay, as the latest chapter in 3½ years and 100,000 miles of traveling, performing and moviemaking on behalf of UNICEF. He paid his own expenses, carried only "a little bag of dried fruit, a little match stick on which to jot down little notes, and a pair of comfortable shoes." Kaye, 43, found it a strenuous but gratifying effort. "The important thing I learned," he says, "is that through the medium of TV . . . if we can help to better understand the problem of the world's children...