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...horse while its ancestry was being checked (though Brentano's book store was still selling a $75 replica when the news was released). What had initially caught Noble's eye while strolling by the horse was a thin line that runs from the top of the mane to the tip of the nose and, less evidently, circles the entire body. "I knew as sure as I was standing there," Noble recalled last week, "that the piece was a fraud." But how to prove...
Warming up, Dirksen waved his arms and pounded his desk. He leaned so close to Assistant Republican Leader Thomas Kuchel that the Californian was practically horizontal at his desk. He shook his head so emphatically that his carefully coiffed mane soon flew askew in a Medusaean tangle of curls. "Our outer defense perimeter started in Korea and went to South Viet Nam," he said. "That is our outside security line. Suppose it fails. It will run from Alaska to Hawaii." Thundered Dirksen, his voice now at full volume: "Let me say that I was not made a Senator to preside...
...Chicago's "What is it?" by Picasso [Aug. 25] is a lion. You can see it in his face, mane and coloring. What else could it possibly...
Died. Victor A. Johnston, 66, longtime Republican senatorial campaign director, known as "the silver fox of Capitol Hill" because of his handsome white mane and his sharp nose for turning up election funds, who in 18 years raised uncounted millions to help such candidates as Harold E. Stassen, Joseph McCarthy, Robert A. Taft, and Barry Goldwater, and counted as one of his toughest jobs finding financial support last year for Oregon's Mark Hatfield, whose dovelike stand on Viet Nam soured many powerful G.O.P. moneymen; of a heart attack; in Miami...
...arms and legs?quite nice legs that somehow look sexy even though they are semaphorically knock-kneed. Lynn, continues Ustinov, "gives the impression of knocking things down by mistake because she doesn't know her tail is wagging." She has a kewpie-doll face countersunk in a strawberry-blonde mane; she wears what looks like fluorescent face powder; and she sometimes paints her lower lashes, Twiggy-style, so far below the natural eyeline that people wonder if they need a hairnet. But the eyes look out between the lashes with a wonderful sparkling sanity, and the high excited voice goes...