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Meanwhile, three years ago, Lillian managed to form her own all-girl orchestra, played clubs around Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Occasionally she would put on a "bop hat" and long plaid jacket with huge key chain and hoarsely sing her own lyrics to songs. "Sing! What am I saying?" she laughs now. "But it was the only singing I ever did until just lately...
Buttoned up in a tan plaid overcoat, President Juan Perón stepped onto a balcony in Buenos Aires one wintry evening last week. In the street below, a crowd of 10,000 stood near a floodlighted, 24 ft. by 12 ft. photograph of the late Eva Perón. One minute went by. At 8:25, exactly three years after Evita died of cancer, bugles blared. After listening to a four-minute panegyric read by a dolorous radio announcer, the crowd shuffled silently past the balcony. Peron made no speech. There was none of the tone of totalitarian frenzy...
Mahendra put aside his plaid sport jacket and made a predawn pilgrimage to the golden-roofed temple of the Lord Pashupatinath to pray to Shiva for guidance while a river of milk flowed over his feet. In the midst of the prayer, a great clap of thunder shattered the silence of Katmandu. Mahendra took it as an omen and promptly fired Nepal's Prime Minister. A democratically-minded young man, Mahendra was outraged by Nepalese politics. "Some people excuse themselves by saying Nepalese democracy is still only in its infancy, but this seems a strange excuse to me," said...
Last week, as the Dow-Jones industrial average hit a new high of 419.68, the friendly study got under way in the Senate caucus room. First witness was President G. Keith Funston of the New York Stock Exchange. Neatly turned out in a grey plaid suit, Funston started testifying nervously, polished off two full pitchers of water before lunch. But as he worked through his scholarly study of why the market has risen, he relaxed, realizing that he was indeed among friends. There were plenty of reasons why demand for stocks has gone up so fast, said Funston. Among them...
...late May turns to June, Cambridge finally shucks its wintry inhibitions and blossoms out in all of its famed originality. Mauve peddiepushers and cerise dirndles are seen escorted by olive green Egyptian lines and Stuart plaid Bermuda shorts...