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...during the week. Jackie Kennedy, who has been taking golf lessons all summer and who now sports a good, athletic swing, slipped away to the Newport Country Club; the President, whose ailing back still keeps him off the course, takes keen interest in his wife's progress toward par...
...ordinary still life: he arranged his painted objects just as the later assemblers were to arrange their actual objects-not as nature would have them, but in accordance with a wholly subjective association. At the same time, he used rope and oilcloth as genuine art materials almost on a par with paint...
Neither team really sparkles defensively. The New York infield is the better of the two, unless the Reds play Leo Cardenas and Elio Chacon. But the Redleg outfield, especially if Mantle is below par, evens the balance...
Though his novels and plays have minted him millions of dollars-and countless loyal friends-British-born P. G. Wodehouse once confided that his life has been "greatly devoted to feeling like 30 cents." His first feeling of being below par interrupted the ceremony in which, 79 years ago, the infant Wodehouse was named Pelham Grenville. Said he: "I remember protesting vigorously, but to no avail." His longest bout with misfortune came in 1940 when Plum, as he has been called since schooldays, was arrested by the Nazi army in his home at Le Touquet on the French side...
...against disease. But no French doctor can legally prescribe contraceptives for women. So strictly maintained is this ban that full-fledged gynecologists still complete their studies without ever learning that such contraceptives for women exist. "In the field of planned parenthood." said one French doctor, "France ranks on a par with Spain and Portugal. It is high time that France caught up with the other four-fifths of the world...