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Back in the U.S., TIME Correspondents James Wilde and Janice Simpson and Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison prowled the studios and salons of Manhattans fashion world. For his look at the way models live, Wilde went roller-discoing with Supermodel Apollonia, brunched with British Model Rachel Ward at the Plaza Hotel's Palm Court and interviewed Louise Roberts, who every week combs through as many as 200 applicants to the Eileen Ford agency to come up with one or two who might have a modeling future. "Normally I work the streets," Wilde says. "This job was like being let loose...
...Black sociologist at a convention at the Chase Park Plaza in St. Louis wanted to take dip in the hotel's swimming pool. But the lifeguard, for no apparent reason, refused to let him swim. The sociologist was enraged and marched to the front desk, insisting on seeing the hotel manager. When the manager did not appear, the sociologist kept standing in the lobby in his swimming trunks until a crowd had gathered. Someone called the St. Louis Human Rights Commission; somebody else notified the American Sociological Association (ASA). The local and national press appeared. Then ASA, which had about...
...body after it left Dallas long enough to retrieve the actual lethal bullets; these, Lifton says, were fired from the front of the motorcade in Dealey Plaza, not from the book depository behind the presidential convertible. The schemers, Lifton continues, enlarged Kennedy's head wound to conceal evidence that he had been shot from the front; they added two back wounds, which had not been seen by some 13 nurses and doctors handling the body at Parkland. Yes, writes Lifton, this had to be a plot "involving the Executive Branch of the Government" and including at least the Secret...
...ornate lobby of the Skirvin Plaza Hotel is jammed with ranchers wearing sweat-stained Stetsons, scuffed boots and $500 pinstripe suits. On the lawn of the nearby state capitol, black rocker arms pump oil from deep within the earth...
Since the death of Calder, Nevelson has become the most frequently commissioned sculptor on the public scale in America, the chief beneficiary of an overflowing pork barrel. Yet a great deal is lost when her work is transferred from the room to the lobby or the plaza. The sense of intimate contact goes. So does the feeling of envelopment, the mysterious orchestration of additive detail in a limited, and hence obsessive-seeming, space. Nevelson's open-form, welded sculptures, such as the set of Shadows and Flags recently installed on a handkerchief-size plot near Wall Street (which...