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Matured Men. Away from what she calls "the linen battlefields," Mae became a vaudeville headliner, a star in Broadway musicals and in her own lubricous dramas -Sex, Diamond Lil, and The Constant Sinner. In a dozen Hollywood films, Mae triumphed on both sides of the Atlantic. During the war, her shape was saluted by R.A.F. pilots, who called their inflatable life jackets "Mae Wests." U.S. Indians, naturally with the dedicated help of publicity men, made Mae a member of the Lakota tribe as Princess She-Who-Mountains-in-Front...
...would be Ike's first trip to Europe in two years, his first to England in seven years, and everywhere the best linen sheets were being brought out and the silver polished. In Britain the President would go on TV with Harold Macmillan and rest a night as the Queen's guest on the Scottish hills of Balmoral. In Bonn some 150,000 school children provided with paper flags would get the day off to line the streets and cheer Ike's arrival. German officials scurried around for a limousine large enough to squeeze an interpreter...
Last week, as the House considered the President's request for $3.9 billion for foreign aid in fiscal 1960, the rivals took to the floor, soon moved from statistics and specifics to their basic philosophies. Said Otto Passman, dazzlingly arrayed in a crisp white linen suit: "First, we cannot spend ourselves rich. Second, we cannot make ourselves secure by giving ourselves away. Third, we cannot buy friends. We were once told that foreign aid would stop Communism. Now we are told it is our duty to buy our way of life for countries all over the world...
Chairman Butler's effort to mend things came after a flood of vengeful rumors (e.g., that he was trying to steal the presidential nomination) and a new outbreak of demands that he be fired. Pennsylvania's powerful Governor Dave Lawrence rebuked Butler for washing party linen in public, and West Coast Democrats were still shooting angry sparks because Butler had deleted praise for congressional Democratic leadership from a letter that California's Governor Pat Brown had sent in accepting membership on the liberal-hued Democratic Advisory Council...
...kept her royal composure drinking soapy-tasting kava in Fiji and eating breadfruit in Tonga, while laka laka dancers whirled about her to the eerie music of nose flutes. In Jamaica, the Queen was unruffled when an idolater threw his cream-linen jacket at her feet and prostrated himself, crying, as the police hauled him away, "I want the Queen to walk on my coat-I love the Queen!" Rarely did the royal nerves give way, but once, in New South Wales, the Queen and Prince Philip seemed to be squabbling as their closed car whisked through a town...