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...what of the Jenny Cavilleris? Had they saved up all their hard-earned money only to get to Bermuda and find a glorified pajama party...
Malraux cannot be accused of that crime of omission. On one occasion, he relates, Brigitte Bardot arrived at an Elysee Palace reception in a hussar-style pajama suit. De Gaulle murmured to Malraux, "What luck, a soldier!" Then to Bardot he said, "What good fortune, madame. You are in uniform and I am in civilian clothes!" Another tale recounts the time the nearsighted general plunged into a crowd without his glasses. "Bonjour, monsieur le curé," he said to one man, apparently taking him for a priest. "But, mon général, I'm your gorille [bodyguard...
...added a few careful stab wounds to those already inflicted by his wife as she fought back. The CID's chief reasons for accusing MacDonald seemed to be its view that 1) there was no firm physical evidence of any intruders; 2) part of MacDonald's ripped pajama top was found under his wife's body, suggesting that they had been struggling; 3) a flowerpot was found standing upright, though its contents were spilled out on the floor, indicating staged disorder...
...Pajama Game. Within 36 hours of Nixon's request, both houses had zipped through measures containing wage boosts. But even as the legislators hurriedly held a hectic House-Senate conference on Capitol Hill to patch up differences in the bills passed by each house, early-bird pickets were appearing only a few blocks away at Washington's Union Station, the final House vote interrupted an impassioned if irrelevant time-filling defense of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover by Lawrence Hogan, a Maryland Republican. The act was not signed by the President until two hours after...
...trucks and Jeeps, swooped down on a narrow dirt alley in Saigon and sealed it off. As their house-to-house search began, G.I.s groggy with sleep and drugs scampered in every direction, a few over rooftops, trying to escape. Their women followed, some stark naked, some wearing only pajama bottoms, as spotlights from two helicopters above played on the bizarre scene. When the roundup ended four hours later, 56 girls and 110 G.I.s, including 30 deserters, were hauled off into custody...