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...Lipstick." Next evening the White House lights glowed again with the President's annual reception for the diplomatic corps. Jackie brought back the Strolling Strings and also the Marine Band jazz combo for dancing-scheduled. The hit of the evening was new Russian Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, who whisked his attractive brunette wife through a fox trot, insisted the step was "typical Russian." Among the early evening kibitzers was Caroline Kennedy, who appeared in an organdy dress and bandaged chin, proudly explained that she had cut her chin while capering alongside the White House swimming pool...
...like - later. To celebrate a successful building drive, Jackie Kennedy had invited Farmington alumnae to an afternoon tea. The girls were delighted by an unexpected visit from the President, who paused long enough to shake some hands, pose for pictures, and whisper to his wife: "You've got lipstick on your teeth...
Possibly in order to discourage other Soviet spivs, the papers last week reported that a court had condemned to death a Red racketeer whose crime was on almost everyone's lips. Nikolai Kotlyar, alias the Lipstick King, amassed a fortune before his arrest last winter by operating a hot lipstick syndicate from the basement of his house in a Moscow suburb (TIME, Dec. 15). Through nine strategically placed accomplices in a state-owned plant at Riga, said Izvestia. Kotlyar in 1960 alone got hold of 59,000 lipstick tubes, which an underground labor force filled with homemade batter...
...Lipstick & Minesweepers. Whatever the local politicians might eventually accomplish in Goa, the immediate problems were economic. Goa's virtually duty-free status sent swarms of Indian soldiers into shops stocked with inexpensive foreign luxury items seldom seen in India because of the government's stringent import restrictions. Shopkeepers did a brisk business in transistor radios, cameras, electric appliances, cosmetics, perfumes, wines. In one Pangim shop alone, Indian soldiers bought 1,400 Max Factor lipsticks. Truckloads of refrigerators were purchased by army officers for shipment home. But the days of the modest boom are numbered. High on the agenda...
High living by confederates also tipped police to the family-operated lipstick factory of Nikolai Kotlyar, who converted the basement of a house in the Moscow district of Ostankino into a miniature plant. Helped by wife, daughter and nephew, Kotlyar installed lipstick molds, mixed batter identical to the popular Ausma brand manufactured in Riga. Soon he persuaded Ausma officials-for a price-that competition was wasteful, and began importing the authentic recipes and lipstick tubes direct from the maker. When Kotlyar was nabbed, he had invested his lipstick loot in precious gems, gold and state bonds worth more than...