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...precondition to any settlement and still believes that the Big Four can lead the way to a solution. The U.S. now tends to view both these arguments as unrealistic. The discussions were lengthy and polite and followed expected patterns. Not so predictable was the attention attracted by Mme. Pompidou's variable hemlines (see MODERN LIVING). As Pompidou left for Cape Kennedy, San Francisco, Chicago and New York City, top diplomats of both nations emphasized that the U.S. and France remained as far apart as ever on the Mideast...
...French President Georges Pompidou stepped onto the White House lawn, everyone looked downward, not in deference to protocol, but to see what length skirt his wife was wearing. For the rest of the week, even in politically oriented Washington, much of the conversation about the state visit centered on Mme. Pompidou's hemlines (she changed as often as four times a day), most of which came to within six inches of the ground...
...Mme. Pompidou arrived at a crucial time for the U.S. fashion world, which is in the midst of a battle over hemline height for 1970. Her attire delighted U.S. manufacturers, designers and women's publications already committed to following the French Longuette look, which was emphasized at the Paris show in January. It dismayed strong-willed women and Seventh Avenue manufacturers still loyal to the miniskirt. For what better advertisement for the midi or Le Long Look than France's long first lady...
...hitch. The church is located in a cluttered wooden house in Austin, Texas. While Mrs. O'Hair holds down the "bishop's" job, her "divinely inspired" husband will double as the "prophet" in residence. Poor Richard's Church will even canonize its own saints: Mark Twain, Mme. Curie, Albert Einstein and other luminaries...
...Queen. played with amusing coquetry by Marilyn Ann Carington, conveys an air of nuanced gentility, not without redemptive power in Genet's scheme of values. She is the world-weary purveyor of artifice-a figure "half mythological and half conventional" like Mme, de Vionnet in The Ambassadors. Beneath her polished regality lurks desire for total capitulation to the revitalizing force which the Blacks as revolutionaries represent...