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Nobody can say that Arnold Palmer's appearance on TIME'S cover [May 2] interrupted his progress-no jinx this time...
...jinx that has haunted the wedding was not to be downed. Despite the palace's best efforts, the image of Margaret that dominated Britain's front pages last week was a preview of a gaunt-cheeked bronze by the late Sir Jacob Epstein. "Hardly regal," grumbled the Daily Telegraph of the scrawny figure. "The princess resembles a badly groomed suburban young woman, her hands roughened at the kitchen sink, about to pick up a tray," wrote the Daily Mail. Then Madame Tussaud's put on view a waxworks figure of Tony Armstrong-Jones in a hands-behind...
...with her husband, Nina Petrovna Khrushchev, 59, returned to Washington, agreed at last to hold a VIP-sized press conference ("not customary in my country") for eager newswomen. Self-possessed and pleasant, Nina Petrovna made a big hit, even got a laugh when in careful English she kidded Jinx Falkenburg (who was present as Pat Nixon's guest) about her beehive-shaped hat: "You look like a Ukrainian bride, no?" With the promise that "I will give you some bits of information you desire," Mrs. Khrushchev laid down some homey and revealing bits. Items...