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...Charlotte." The wedding next day was a simple civil ceremony in the Fifth Avenue apartment of Mother Anne. The bride wore a knee-length white silk gabardine dress and a small matching open pillbox headpiece on her shoulder-length blonde hair. Uzielli was dapper but informal in a cuffless grey worsted suit and silver silk tie. With just 15 members of the families looking on, the vows took precisely ten minutes. Said Judge Frederick Strong, who performed the ceremony: "It was just a little longer, a little more elaborate and, I hope, a little more meaningful than...
...SHILLELAGH is a stubby little (about 50 Ibs.; 43 in.) missile launched from an armored vehicle-usually a tank. Its microbeam-guidance system is so accurate that Shillelagh can destroy a tank, pillbox or troop concentration several miles away. Giving Shillelagh an added knockdown punch is its launching platform, the new General Sheridan tanklike armored vehicle. This is a speedy battlefield bantamweight (it weighs only 16 tons, compared with 50 tons for most U.S. tanks) that scoots along at 39 m.p.h. on the ground; when necessary it can dive into water and "swim" at 4 m.p.h. More important: the Sheridan...
...Victors explores man's inhumanity to man with candor-or perhaps it's just a heartfelt desire to shock. A twelve-year-old homosexual leaves the Germans and offers himself as a G.I. camp follower. A French lieutenant coolly obliterates every sign of life in an enemy pillbox that has already surrendered. Soldiers in transit sing out that old favorite Bless 'Em All, blurrily substituting that four-letter verb common to army camps but not to Hollywood movies...
...Explaining why Jackie had not accompanied him, the President laughed. "Mrs. Kennedy," he said, "is busy organizing herself. It takes a little longer, you know, but then she looks so much better than we do." And indeed she looked lovely when, wearing a pink wool suit and pillbox hat, she joined her husband at a breakfast sponsored by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce...
...surprisingly, Dad is not at all well. To organize his pill-popping: an $8.95 pillbox with generous compartments for every day in the week so that the poor man will know when...