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Wintering at a rented $175,000 California "cottage," Former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, 65, who preferred aspirin-sized pillboxes long before the Age of Jackie, was coaxed by a local boutique keeper into an unlikely flopper model. Especially designed for the midday desert sun, the cotton-eyelet chapeau is peddled to the carriage trade by the Palm Springs Racquet Club's "Glady's Shop" under the fetching tag of "chambermaid...
...midday rush begins. "Four plaice! . . . Two turbot! ... I got six steaks! . . . Four plaice, please, ducks! . . . Three cutlets, Hans! . . . Two omelettes! . . . Four cod, lover boy! Ye canna be a slow coach here!" Waitresses scream, cooks curse, knives flash, fat crackles, urns squeal, sweat spews out of every pore and food leaps furiously from pot to plate as though it were alive. Faster the pace, wilder the tumult. Like a runaway reactor, like a Beethoven rising to full frenzy the great kitchen gathers itself and surges, thunders, mindlessly explodes in a tremendous climax of comestibles...
...midday, Nikita Khrushchev will be Kennedy's luncheon guest, and the afternoon talk between the two leaders of East and West is expected to break up by 6 p.m. to allow them time to dress for the gala state dinner to be held in the imperial grandeur of Schönbrunn Palace. On Sunday morning, the President is scheduled to attend Mass in St. Stephen's Cathedral, then drive to the Soviet embassy for five hours of talk-broken by lunch-with Khrushchev. This will give Jackie time to see the famous Lippizaner horses at the Spanish Riding...
Wintering in Jamaica, T. S. Eliot and his wife Valerie, the plumply attractive Yorkshire lass he married four years ago, kept busy with nightly gin rummy, breezed through novels from the hotel library, daily ventured out in the midday sun. As he basked contentedly with his 34-year-old ex-secretary, the poet, at 72, looked not a little like the hero of his 1917 Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock...
...austere hand on the little mining town of Kellogg, Idaho (pop. 5,000), where most homes are heated by wood stoves. The encircling, mile-high mountains of the Coeur d'Alene mining area, rich in lead, zinc and silver, curtain off the sunlight except for a few midday hours. This year the 5,000 people of Kellogg await winter's arrival with a new dread: life in a town with its only industry shut down...