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...were appointed at the age of six to ten to keep a flame constantly burning in the temple of Vesta, Rome's goddess of the hearth. Twenty centuries later, when Producer Gabriel Pascal got around to casting six Vestal Virgins for RKO's Androcles and the Lion (TIME, Oct. 15), no less than 2,200 hopefuls from Hollywood's horde of extras felt eminently qualified for the parts. One literal-minded applicant enclosed a medical affidavit certifying her eligibility, but many felt that photographs of themselves clad only in scanty Bikini bathing suits would be more effective...
...band boomed out the Jordanian national anthem and 21 guns cracked a salute. Hashemite and hated enemy had got together. That evening, 71-year-old Ibn Saud, father of more than 30 living sons, gave one of the most magnificent dinners of his life. Afterward, the one-eyed old lion of the desert and the gloomy, unstable King of Jordan talked well into the night...
...British lion, which had seemed mangy and moth-eaten in Iran, put on a show of bared fangs that stunned the Egyptians. British Tommies, not overly tender with their bayonets, picked up Egyptian officials who were making trouble and booted them out of the zone. As the 40,000 Egyptian laborers who served the zone installations faded away, British tanks rumbled into neighboring villages and herded laborers into British-run camps. Said the British: they were not running press gangs, merely giving "safe conduct" to the workers...
...Winterthur's indoor bowling alley had become an 18th Century shop lane gleaming with china and pewterware. The badminton court was now a cobbled indoor square with fine old house fronts on three sides, and the brick façade of an inn from Red Lion, Del. on the fourth. Even the elevators were finished in antique American paneling. Among the prize exhibits: a set of silver tankards made by Paul Revere, an 18th Century Philadelphia highboy for which Du Pont paid a reported $44,000, and paintings by John Copley, Gilbert Stuart, Benjamin West...
...Baltimore, when zoo officials brought in a new gorilla to meet Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro, he stopped them short: "Don't let him near me-I mean it. Since I've been mayor of Baltimore, I've been bitten by a snake, clawed by a lion cub and kicked by a camel. . . Let's buy him and get him out of here...