Word: nice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jackie Kennedy likes to give her sea-loving husband things that are nautical and nice. So for Christmas she gave the President a fine piece of scrimshaw to add to his growing collection. It was a sperm whale's tooth. 9½ in. long and 4½ in. in diameter. "This wasn't just an ordinary whale's tooth,'' marveled a White House aide. "I guess it is supposed to be the biggest damn whale's tooth ever found...
...daughter never gave a rap about me," snorted craggy old Author W. Somerset Maugham, 88, and now the feeling was mutual. In a Nice court, Maugham filed a petition to disinherit Elizabeth Mary Maugham, 47, and recover some $2,000,000 worth of gifts he lavished on her since she was born. His penny-novel grounds: Elizabeth is not his legitimate daughter because she was conceived while her mother was still married to another man. He also cited Article 955 of the French Civil Code, which permits the recovery of gifts if the beneficiary is not properly grateful, and Elizabeth...
...great is the prince shortage that royal mothers are. as always, unblushing marriage brokers. A couple of years ago, The Netherlands' Queen Juliana threw a ball so that Crown Princess Beatrix could meet some nice boys, but the stags stayed stags. With far more success. Greece's Queen Frederika organized a Mediterranean cruise for nubile royalty; it sparked the match between Spain's Prince Juan Carlos and her daughter, Princess Sophie...
...Dame Margot Fonteyn for flying in from London to take the place of ailing Ballerina Maria Tallchief, posed with the cast in some pictures that looked like spun-sugar decorations on a holiday cake. She dropped by the D.C. Village infirmary for old folks, stopped by each wheelchair, saying: "Nice to see you. Merry Christmas...
...coward who betrayed his revolutionary comrades to torture and death. One of the women (Viveca Lindfors) is a lesbian who seduced a virtuous young housewife and slowly, out of sheer unnatural viciousness, destroyed her. The other is a rich woman (Rita Gam) who drowned her baby and inspired her nice old husband to blow his brains out. Briskly they confess their sins, warily they begin to discover what manner of hell they are in. The coward longs to be saved, the lesbian prefers to be damned, the rich woman wants to be distracted. Each involves the others in a vicious...