Word: shoelessness
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Shriver had cause for insomnia-as one event swiftly proved. Hardly had the Peace Corps put its feet on foreign ground than there was a major flap: a corps girl named Margery Michelmore, stationed in Nigeria, dropped a home-addressed postcard that seemed critical of life in that shoeless African nation; it was picked up, put in anti-American channels, and screechingly publicized.*Shriver is convinced that the subsequent success of the Peace Corps has been such that there will be no repetition of that incident. "It won't happen again -not like that," he says...
Meanwhile. Yemen is opening up to the outside world. TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho last week found Strongman Sallal in his San'a home, sitting shoeless on a mattress, surrounded by fellow officers, adding an occasional cigarette butt to the litter of orange peels on the mosaic floor. Sallal offered a justification of his coup, which turned mostly on reminiscences of the incredibly corrupt and backward rule imposed on Yemen by the gross, 300-lb. Ahmad the Devil...
Whatever their approach, truly original ads are so few that they are quickly copied. The bulk of menthol cigarette ads-a boy, a girl (shoeless) and a babbling brook-are virtually indistinguishable. Often, too. the less expensive or distinctive a product is, the more pretentiously it is advertised-which leads admen to argue whether it is good salesmanship to make a snob appeal for a non-snob product. The most notable voice raised in opposition is that of Fairfax Cone of Chicago's Foote, Cone & Belding agency, who argues that an ad should come as close as possible...
...Washington society fortnight ago (TIME, Dec. 29), Diane ("Dede") Buchanan, 18, captivating daughter of former State Department Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan, last week bestrode the world. Occasion : Manhattan's glittering seventh annual International Debutante Ball, where Dede as official U.S. representative joined an Annapolis escort in a shoeless demonstration of a U.S. folk dance that De Rham never taught...
Dorothy Kilgallen is forever questioning but is seldom questioned. Last week, however, television's Mike Wallace sat her down on his P.M. East show and, with all the care of a shoeless man in a room with a rattlesnake, conducted an interview with the sophisticated lady whose friends, it developed, call her Dolly...