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Today the most formidable and in some ways the bravest woman in South Viet Nam wears tapered satin trousers and a torso-hugging ao-dai, split from ankle to waist, and rides to meet her foes in a chauffeur-driven black Mer cedes. Instead of swords, her weapons are bottomless energy, a devastating charm, a tough, relentless mind, an acid tongue, a militant Roman Catholi cism ? and, most important, the power of the family into which she married. She is Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, wife of President Ngo Dinh Diem's younger brother and closest brain-truster...
...Fuller-Sandys as an adviser in the Native Affairs Department, curtly explaining: "You cannot administer Africans and sleep with them." Of 48 white friends Fuller-Sandys invited to the wedding last week, 34 sent their regrets. The beaming bride, carrying a bouquet of white dahlias and wearing a white satin gown, had three African bridesmaids for the ceremony on Fuller-Sandys' veranda, performed by the Rev. Richard Hughes, rector of an Anglican church at Que Que 64 miles away. That night, under a full moon, the wedded couple attended an African celebration in their honor. There was much leap...
...gala Crystal Ball, where she greeted 600 elite guests, among them Contralto Marian Anderson. Though honored by the sponsoring Fashion Group of Philadelphia, the Princess bypassed local couturiers for a deep blue organza gown by Balenciaga. Grace's mother, Mrs. John B. Kelly Sr., wore a blush pink satin frock purchased in Atlantic City. Said she unblushingly, "I don't pay any attention to designers...
...123rd year, it was carnival time in Rio, and for three howling days and four nights, all work stopped, except for the police and the hospital attendants. Everyone else-the rich and the poor, old and young-shucked street clothes and inhibitions and donned everything from jeweled and satin costumes at $5,000 to sequined bikinis, hand towels, burlap sacks and burnooses, and went out. Thousands of bottles of liquor, from Scotch to Brazil's own cachaça, distilled from sugar cane, vanished down thousands of dance-parched throats. In the streets, in the hotels and public halls...
Chica da Silva herself is next, in $2,500 worth of red-and-white silk petticoats topped with a skirt embroidered with white feathers, lace, seed pearls and semiprecious stones. She wears a 3-ft. white wig, à la Marie Antoinette, and her satin train is 12 ft. long. The floats roll by-a replica of Chica's sailing ship, a group of miners pouring money and gems into Dom João's open hands-plus a second flag-bearer team, more dancers, and the percussion band. Around the whole 2,300-member group is a thick...