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...residence), or the William Paleys' swimming-pooled pavilion (where both President Kennedy and Princess Margaret have stayed). Or for $65 a day, a couple may have a spacious double bedroom with a balcony on the bay. Round Hill has the swinging crowd-society and show biz mixed with plainer folk who like going black tie twice a week for their dining and dancing...
...subsequent fear that she might become the unmarried daughter who stayed at home with mother, that made everyone pleased by the news. The Archbishop of Canterbury had no objections this time. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip were reported "delighted" because it was "such an obviously happy match." A plainer reaction everywhere was "Thank heaven, Margaret's not going to marry some aristocratic chinless wonder...
...these criticisms missed the essential point that deterrent power will deter only to the extent that the enemy is convinced of the U.S.'s willingness to use it -and the willingness would be a lot plainer if the nation's citizens had the protection of fallout shelters. Said the task force: "The physical ability of families to survive even the most terrifying nuclear attack is, in the ultimate reckoning, a fact of crucial importance to our national security. The will to survive, coupled with the ability to do so, ranks next to military power in the nuclear...
...plainer language, the council's cure for inflation is to create more inflation-through Government spending...
...Paper Tiger. Dulles went upstairs to a room crowded with 42 correspondents, adjusted his steel-rimmed glasses, and read the Newport Warning straight through. Then he made the message even plainer in a "background briefing" under the standard ground rule that he would be quoted only as an unnamed "high official," until, two days later, angry ex-Secretary of State Dean Acheson announced to one and all the identity of the briefing officer...