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...Apocalyptic Vision. To a latter-day Rip Van Winkle awakening from a sleep of a few years, the week's rumblings would at first have seemed quite familiar, reminiscent of earlier cold war crises. But closer examination might indicate a profound change. There was a crisis in Laos that might prove to be painful and prolonged. But missing were the verbal and psychological accompaniments of the cold war crises of the '50s: the apprehension that the scales of power might be about to tip against the West, the warnings that a climactic showdown might loom ahead...
Royals and commoners had a rip-roaring time. Highlight of the pre-nuptial festivities was a wingding for 2,000 guests in Windsor Castle's Waterloo Chamber, which is only slightly less spacious than the battlefield itself. Fueled by a lavish buffet, 1,600 bottles of a pleasant, non-vintage champagne and rivers of stronger stuff, the guests twirled and twisted until breakfast. To a man, the roistering royals approved warmly of Alexandra's match. "Thank goodness," whispered one, "she's not marrying one of those awful double-barreled German names...
...closing number, Miss Washington, stacked like the melon gallery, appeared in a mass of red taffeta. She pulled her rip cord, and there she stood-after all, it is the nation's capital-not quite nude. An aw-gee string. A suggestion of red taffeta there-there and there...
...demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm and burgonet of men, the fellow who is living with Elizabeth Taylor. Stevedores admire him. Movie idols envy him. He is a kind of folk hero out of nowhere, with an odd name like Richard instead of Tab, Rock, or Rip, who has out-tabbed, outrocked, and outripped the lot of them. He is the new Mr. Box Office...
Last week at Manhattan's Blue Angel, she cast timid eyes at the ceiling as if Major Bowes's cane were about to rip down from the attic. She squirmed onto a stool and let her coltish legs dangle, ankles napping. She twisted bony fingers through her hair and blessed her audience with a tired smile. Then she sang-and at the first note, her voice erased all the gawkiness of her presence onstage...