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...conduct of foreign affairs. The former Georgetown University government professor assailed U.S. policymakers for their "persistent ineptitude in international relations that has persisted through several decades, several Administrations." The U.S., she charged, was guilty of "stumbling from issue to issue almost on a Mad Hatter basis." Added Kirkpatrick: "We simply have behaved like a bunch of amateurs, in my opinion...
Though the meal may at times have overtones of the Mad Hatter's tea party, its hostess, Marjabelle Stewart, 51, insists it will be one of the most important events in her guests' lives. August, Bridget, Garo, Tiffany and Co. range in age from five to eleven, and they are learning dining etiquette. By teaching proper behavior to children all over the country, Stewart says, she is helping bring about a revolution. "We are emerging from the rude, rebellious period," maintains Stewart, who in voluminous hot-pink chiffon gown and Margaret Thatcher coiffure is something of a period...
DIED. A.J. Cronin, 84, Scottish physician turned author whose bestselling novels include Hatter's Castle (1931), The Citadel (1937) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1941); of acute bronchitis; near Montreux, Switzerland...
...Sophie Steurer then, 25 years old, one of eleven children born to a German hatter and his wife. They had lived comfortably in Ebingen, about 40 miles south of Stuttgart. But the inflation and unemployment that ravaged Germany in the 1920s changed all that. By 1923 a loaf of bread cost up to 3 million marks. Sophie could find work only half a day a week -sewing men's shirts. Her friends sought jobs in The Netherlands and Spain. "But for me," Sophie recalls, "America was the thing." She was fortunate in having a sponsor: an uncle...
...cluster of two dozen rubber bubbles costs around $25, not too much more than a florid array of earthbound blossoms. At many ballooneries, the fee covers the cost of delivering the gaudy globules by a messenger dressed as a magician, a mime, a clown, Big Bird, the Mad Hatter, Groucho Marx-or even with an entire chorus line. Sometimes bubbly also accompanies the balloons...