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Through the Roof. The huge State Fair Music Hall (capacity: 4,100) was almost a quarter empty when La Callas appeared, shimmering and glowing in a Venetian-gold gown with diamonds glittering at her ears. Behind her was a black-bordered set with a sky-blue backdrop, creating the effect of an immense shadow box. Callas had committed herself to a murderously difficult concert of eight operatic arias. All week she had kept trying to cut the number down to three, but Impresario Kelly held firm, and eight it was. She opened with a Mozart aria from The Abduction from...
President Goheen termed the incident "unfortunate. especially considering town-gown relations." He added that "you may be sure that the Princeton Dean's Office will decide the case without being swayed by considerations of college prejudice...
Haynes, who uses a light plane to tend his winter trap line, got an inspiration after Mamie Eisenhower dazzled an inauguration ball with a sparkling gown covered with rhinestones. Said he: "A friend of mine, Jack Walsh, is both a trapper and a jeweler. When Mrs. Eisenhower wore that inauguration dress, all shimmering in pink rhinestones, Jack sold all his rhinestones. He ordered more rhinestones, and sold them too. I said to him, why couldn't we get her to wear beaver...
...next night, in the patio of Tangier's casbah, a lissome girl in a shimmering blue silk Lanvin gown, milk-white turban and evening slippers gracefully ascended a dais piled high with priceless Oriental carpets, and turned to face her audience. Younger men in the audience eyed appreciatively the girl's dark eyes, her rich red-brown hair and café au lait complexion. But many orthodox Moslem traditionalists just stared wide-eyed, stunned and aghast at the appearance in public of Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Aisha, eldest daughter of His Majesty the Sultan-17 years...
When Queen Elizabeth, dressed in her jewel-encrusted coronation gown and diamond tiara, read the Speech from the Throne written by the Conservative government and outlining its legislative aims, Prime Minister Diefenbaker's strategy came clear. His government would introduce legislation to raise pensions for the aged, needy and war veterans; it planned to provide cash advances for farmers with unsold wheat, and to embark on a far-reaching program of hydroelectric power development. If Parliament balked at any significant part of his program, confident John Diefenbaker would call an early election. Said cautious Louis St. Laurent: "It does...