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...Coronation Day, reflecting the new tranquillity, the lush green valley surrounding the capital shimmered with fresh color. Hibiscus and gardenias vied with the brilliant new paint on farmers' houses that looked like huge, multi-flavored icecream cones. Here and there shone the glint of newly gilded brass gods, while ringed all around were the ghostly peaks of the high Himalayas. In the midst of it all, Coronation Guest Lowell Thomas, in proper tails, darted about directing a crew of Cinerama cameramen...
...moviegoing by night (Israel's per capita cinema attendance is the world's highest). Over their cheesecake and Nescafé, young apartment dwellers talk about new cars and skin-diving. Out in the older collective settlements, where palm-shaded bungalows hedged by bright bougainvillea and hibiscus have long since supplanted the rude huts, basketball courts and swimming pools indicate that the new generation of native-born Israelis prefer sports to politics...
...TIME, March 30). If Houstonians had a drop of mob justice left in their veins, wrote Little, they would organize "a posse of Cadillac owners" to invade damyankee-land and free Conley. Exclaimed Little: "It is Texans like Conley who add scent to the magnolia, color to the red hibiscus, juice to the grapefruit and stature to the San Jacinto monument...
After the procession she hurried back to her house in Weymouth Street, took off her soaked gown (made from the bark of a hibiscus tree), had a hot bath and went to bed. Later she told newsmen that she loved the British weather. "The public was as wet as I, and we were both enjoying ourselves . . . Oh, it was marvelous. The greatest day ever." Wrote the London Daily Telegraph: "Few visitors can ever have endeared themselves so widely and so speedily." Pleaded Columnist Nat Gubbins in the Sunday Express...
...Lieut. General Maxwell D. Taylor presented Korea's President Syngman Rhee with a 78th-birthday gift: a brand new jeep with blue leather seats, deep blue hubcaps and two sirens. Extra accessory: a special R.O.K. commander-in-chief license plate -two gold dragons gazing into a hibiscus, Korea's national flower...