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...Raynesford, Mont. (pop. 62), a cowboy can saunter out of the Mint Bar, ride two miles over rolling, dun-colored country, and watch hard-hatted construction workers pouring concrete around a Minuteman launch silo 89 feet deep. North of Little Rock, Ark., where the Ouachita Mountains slope toward the Mississippi, motorists on U.S. Route 67 can see trailers, cars and cranes clustered around huge wounds that have been gouged in the earth for Titan II missiles. Flying south on Western Airlines Flight 51 near Cheyenne, Wyo., passengers can look down and see the jeweled galaxy of lights around an Atlas...
Designers' colors for winter sound like a low-calorie diet-carrot, eggplant, prune, cherry and mint. Fabrics range from ordinary reversible wools, suede and leather to delicately worked jerseys, crepe, chiffon and much velvet. The favorite by far is fur-Maggy Rouff shows an all-beaver skirt, Patou an all-nutria dress, and Balmain (a sort of latter-day Gregor Mendel) crosses persian lamb with tweed for a hybrid stadium plaid...
...first, Nellie Tayloe Ross (later director of the U.S. Mint) was sworn in as Governor of Wyoming just 15 days earlier, though both women were elected on the same day. Since then, many have tried, but no other woman has been elected Governor...
...best catches in the British Isles caught each other last week. Married in rural Devonshire were rich, handsome Anthony Nutting, 41, once a rising Tory who quit as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in 1956 in protest against the Suez invasion, and Anne Gunning, 30, elegant, mint-cool Irish model and onetime LIFE cover girl...
Second indication of Athens' strong-tactics was the issuing of the , which insisted "violently " that Athenian coins, , and measures be used through- Aegean, and gave only Athens the mint silver...