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Finally, at a plenary session in the gilt-and-cream great hall of Kubbah Palace, Nasser proposed a sharing of guilt. "The presence of Baath in the Arab homeland is a necessity," he declared. "The resignation of the Baath ministers from the U.A.R. government in 1961 was a mistake. Accepting the resignations was also a mistake." The Baathist delegates clapped and cheered this burying of the hatchet. In a startlingly un-Arab spirit of amity and compromise, both sides accepted the other's good faith and minimum terms...
...Cover) In the gilt and white splendor of Carnegie Hall, the little ceremony seemed as homey as a washtub fiddle. "Old Buck eyes are as proud as can be of this fine, fine orchestra from Cleveland." announced the man from the Ohio Society of New York. "My gosh." answered the man from the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, "we're proud too." The Manhattan audience that had assembled for the first of the Cleveland Orchestra's current series of three New York concerts greeted this dialogue with faint, perfunctory applause. It was in no mood to encourage chatter: there...
...Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes swung black-mesh-stockinged legs, started a fad, and smiled her best-dressed approval. Outside, snow fell softly on the streets of Paris, and there were some who talked of De Gaulle and the Common Market. But inside, up and down the length of the gilt salons, the talk was only of hems, heels and seams. For it was the time of the spring collections...
...Chosen. Though final identification was only possible by prying patron from chair, the better to read the gilt-embossed name card affixed to it, some players could be told without a program. Bigtime buyers for stores or manufacturers, from both the U.S. and Europe, tended to be short, squat, greying and myopic; they wore lumps of coats with muskrat collars, orthopedic shoes and chewed Sen-Sen by the handful. Lesser buyers, reluctant to pay the heavy cost of admission (often a promise to buy as much as $1,700 worth of merchandise) lurked around showroom exits, approaching departing guests with...
...once safely at West Virginia, Thorn seemed something of a gilt-edged bust. An A student in high school, he fretted about missing classes when the team was on the road, stayed up so late studying that his basketball suffered. In a Southern Conference tournament, Thorn fired a shot at the basket from just 20 ft. away -and missed the backboard by 10 ft. Confused and exhausted, Thorn developed insomnia and a chronic sore throat. At length, he dropped out of school for a semester-for fear of getting a C on his record. "I was so sick mentally...