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...bound to be the most joyous evening that Washington has never experienced. For a tax-deductible contribution of $25 a head, 7,000 elegant socialites are being given an unprecedented opportunity not to attend a charity ball that will not be given this month by Mrs. John Sherman Cooper, wife of the Kentucky Republican Senator. The notion for the no-ball came to Lorraine Cooper as she brooded over ways to cut down the expenses that inevitably erode the take at charity affairs. Having hit on the ultimate cutdown, she sent out embossed non-invitations describing the charitable work being...
...Eisenhower Administration's only major scandal; of a heart attack; in Boston An 1899 emigrant from Russia, Goldfine became a wheeler-dealer in real estate "and textiles, and a friend of important people. Trouble was, some of the most important of those people, notably Chief White House Aide Sherman Adams, accepted expensive gifts from Goldfine while federal agencies were examining his tangled finances. The Justice Department eventually uncovered enough evidence to convict him of tax evasion in 1961; after six months in prison, he emerged sick and dishonored to see his fortune vanish in back taxes and penalties...
...victory on the west bank of the Jordan, an Israeli armored brigade was ready to lash out from a point just north of the kibbutz of Kfar Szold (see map) and grind up into the forbidding Syrian hills. So tortuous was the terrain that the lead battalion of 35 Sherman tanks was forced to snake up the cliffside in single file. Despite heavy Israeli air and artillery strikes on the Syrian gun emplacements, Arab 130-and 122-mm. shells rained down on the slender column at the rate of ten tons a minute. Barreling straight into bazookas and antitank guns...
Syrian position. That was Sir-a-Dib, which stands atop a buried pipeline built to carry crude oil from Saudi Arabian wells to Lebanese ports. It was 3 p.m., and only half the original 35 Sherman tanks that started the assault were still moving...
...creator was Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a Dublin-born descendant of French shoemakers renowned in the late 19th century for his public stat ues - New York's equestrian Sherman, Chicago's Lincoln, Boston's Shaw and Washington's Adams Memorial. Diana was his favorite, though, and from the moment Architect Stanford White asked him to sculpt her as a fitting finial for the Garden (then under construction), she was a labor of love, his first nude, his first ideal figure. Saint-Gau dens chose an Irish girl named Nellie Fitzpatrick as his model, made...