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...grab-bag of under-arm deodorants, living bras, toilet tissue, toe-nail paint, perfume, mouthwash, and the Potato Sack look. Sex was the province of the Ladies Home Journal. Dr. Spock replaced the Bible. Bohemia in pink panties was more organized nymphomania than Art. Greenwich Village was overrun with mop-headed, turtle-necked, tweed-wrapped, smudge-faced, and beer-reeking femmes fatale, with Wallace Stevens under one arm and Well of Loneliness under the other...
Surrounded by Russian souvenirs, including a 6-ft. lilac bush, mop-topped Pianist Van Cliburn, 23, fresh from victory in Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Competition, flew into New York to clasp his happy parents with bear hugs, gab about his Russian hosts ("They're very much like Texans"), shake hands with fans (among them, one seven-year-old who rapturously referred...
...mops up his one-Texan conquest of the Soviet Union this week, the Russians have to look back a century for a comparable triumph. That was when Franz Liszt, history's most vaunted piano virtuoso (and the teacher of the man who taught Van's first teacher-his mother), made his debut in St. Petersburg. Wearing Pope Pius IX's Order of the Golden Spur over his white cravat, his immaculate dress coat clanking with his other medals, his "shapely white hands" encased in doeskin gloves, he appeared, tossing his shoulder-length blond hair, before an audience...
When Rebel Fidel Castro's men called the strike, it turned out to be a classic of disorganization. Batista easily quelled it with units of the crack, 7,000-man National Police alone, and the cops went on to a brutal and exemplary mop-up. The effect was to cripple, perhaps for a long time, the general-strike psychology-the emotional willingness of soft-hooded amateurs to go up against the hardhanded professionals...
...with a knight, and muttered: "Now he's busted." But Bobby knew better. Later he said: "Byrne was playing pretty good, and then I gave him a hit in the head." It was a blow from which Byrne could not recover. After the 27th move, Bobby's mop-up of his opponent's shattered forces was routine...