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...second floor. In Jerusalem, an opening-night crowd of 3,500 stood politely when Israeli President Izhak Ben-Zvi entered, then burst into thunderous applause for Casals. An astonishing total of 15,000 people flocked to five recitals in Tel Aviv to hear the internationally famed Budapest String Quartet pluck out all 16 Beethoven string quartets...
...carefully watched the capsule's trajectory. They announced (through human intermediaries) that it would take Grissom to almost exactly the chosen impact point (302 miles down range)-though wind finally blew him six miles off target. Excitement rose on the aircraft carrier Randolph, whose helicopters were hovering to pluck the capsule out of the water. Second-by-second reports came down from space, Grissom chatting over his radio with Shepard...
...Flip-up magnifying spectacles, called BeautyLooks, that enable women to see better what they are doing when they put on their makeup. The magnifiers are set away from the face so that a woman can easily apply eye makeup or pluck her eyebrows behind them, whereas ordinary glasses would interfere. Price...
Short of atom-bombing one's lawn (or one's neighbor's), the only way to fight this infiltration is to get down and pluck. This requires, first, a cold, sharp eye and a strong back. Beyond that, it all depends on the gardener's psychological makeup. One familiar type detests routine plucking, but he keeps alert enough en route to his car in the morning or to the backyard barbecue in the evening, and can spot, swoop and pluck without so much as a change in stride or loss...
...running for the prestigious post in Paris are Under Secretary of State Livingston Merchant and two retired Army generals who blasted the Eisenhower Administration defense policies: onetime Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor and onetime Research and Development Chief James Gavin. Merchant will definitely pluck some plum, if not the Paris embassy then another major one. Among several contenders for the ambassadorship to Japan are John D. Rockefeller III, Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer and Jeffrey Parsons, who is likely to be replaced as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs by U. Alexis Johnson, at present Ambassador...