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...blue eyes, wavy brown hair and clean-chiseled features would look great on Mount Rushmore; he has been rated by the Professional Photographers of America as the nation's most handsome Governor. He is a very pleasant, amiable and thoughtful man, as he has proved at downstate ribbon cuttings, corn-picking festivals, and beauty-contest judgings over the four years of his term...
...just seven days after he became President of the U.S. because of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson issued Executive Order No. 11,130, setting up a blue-ribbon commission, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate each and every aspect of the national tragedy...
With a lucky yellow ribbon tied to the headband of his bridle and 128 lbs. (including Jockey Milo Valenzuela) on his back, Kelso lined up with Gun Bow and three other rivals for the 1⅛-mile Aqueduct Stakes, first of New York's late-season weight-for-age races. "He'll beat Gun Bow, you wait and see," insisted Mrs. du Pont. Few in the Labor Day crowd of 65,066 agreed with her. They sent Kelso off at 2-1, his longest odds in 19 months. The odds...
...restaurants claim that their clientele is too well fed or bred to haul home scraps. Some places, like New Jersey's Smithville Inn, even wrap guests' unfinished home-baked bread. Manhattan's famed "21" Club humors the carriage trade by tucking unfinished delicacies in smart, ribbon-tied boxes that look as if they held tiaras rather than T-bones. At The Colony, which trills each lunchtime with some of the most expensive giggles in the world, guests' pooches eat on the house-dogs in the men's room, bitches retire to lunch in the powder...
...mountains. It is the nation's rapidly growing network of oil, gas and product pipelines, which now extends into all of the 49 continental states. Last week the biggest product pipeline of them all, built by Atlanta's Colonial Pipeline Co., slowly threaded its 36-inch ribbon of steel through the swamps and suburbs of New Jersey, two feet underground. Only ten more miles will mean the completion of a 1,600-mile link between Houston and New York...