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...even gaudier splash of red lies ahead for fiscal 1959 (TIME, March 24). Only three months ago, President Eisenhower, hopeful that the economy would soon perk up, predicted a skinny 1959 surplus of $500 million. But January's estimates are already obsolete. Anderson reported that the spending estimate has jumped $4 billion from programs already in the works, to a peacetime peak of $78 billion...
...care and finesse of deep-sea fishermen hooked into prize tuna. Johnny has abandoned his ambition to be a pure jazz singer ("not profitable"), has carefully cultivated the delicate art of wooing local disk jockeys. So far, he has been seasoning himself in small clubs, avoiding the gaudier barns on the theory that "I haven't yet got the ability of a Lena Home to take a thousand people and bring them down to the size of a fist...
...ardent turfman whose stables had produced five Derby winners. (The day before his death, a thoroughbred named Damseesa, carrying his flashy red and green silks, romped home an easy 14 to 1 winner at Paris' Le Tremblay.) Gossipists eagerly followed his own progress through four marriages, and the gaudier romances of his son, Prince...
...Palm Beach, Bob Sweeny began spending more time on golf, less around the house. Despite the birth of two daughters and the gay social life, Society Matron Joanne soon felt "as if I had been missing out on life." She agonized over her diet, sought new companionship on the gaudier fringes of the Palm Beach sporting set. "Remember," Sweeney once explained, "she is young, very young." But in 1953, he won an uncontested divorce-and custody of the children-after naming International Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa as Joanne's lover...
...caparisoned horsemen and another 5,000 on foot flowed out to Kaduna's racecourse and polo field to parade and maneuver before the Queen. In wave after wave, each gaudier and more dashing than the one before, they marched and charged before the royal box, where their leaders paused to salute, then move on. From a raised pavilion, the Queen accepted the homage of, among others, the Rwang Pam of Birom, the Atta of Igala, the Tor of Tiv, the Och of Idoma and the Etsu Nupe...