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...busy elsewhere. Staid Boston is building the Fenway Commonwealth, a six-story, Continental-flavor motel with reproductions of Italian provincial furniture and atmosphere built into the walls. At the Ocean-House Motel in San Diego, waiters are dressed in 17th century costumes as British naval officers, and macaws shrill from cages as guests swim in one of the largest pools in Southern California. Other motels offer kennels for dogs, fulltime butlers, free sewing kits, cookout facilities, bowling alleys, masseurs, Finnish saunas...
Back to Arminius. Mosley, a still shrill ghost who returned to Britain from self-imposed exile in France and Ireland in 1958 (he had been detained in England early in World War II), is having a minor revival. Neo-Fascists have about as much influence as neo-Druids would have, but in an economically and politically uneasy Britain, Mosley's clumsy thrusts at the Jews and colored immigrants whom he blames for "economic crises" no longer seemed merely eccentric. The Ridley Road riot was the third such outburst that Mosley's men had provoked in three weeks (total...
Baby Doll. Films like How to Marry a Millionaire, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and The Seven Year Itch made her vague but sparkling smile and her shrill, excited voice the universal definition of Baby Doll. And she learned to speak in the voice of the girl she was supposed to be with memorable success...
Matronly and shrill, Aggie seems an anomaly in the Herald-Examiner's mannish, prankish city room. But in her 36 years as a journalist (30 on the Herald-Examiner, 15 as its city editor), Aggie has kept such a muscular grip on the news of L.A.'s seamy side that no one thinks of the greying grandmother as an interloper in a man's world. Years away from her reputation as the town's best crime reporter, she still keeps up a running dialogue with the underworld that helps her paper to impressive scoops...
...shrill bell rang in Athens' marble Parliament chamber, and the top ministers of the 15 North Atlantic Treaty nations sat down once again to debate the question of atomic weapons. As had been obvious for weeks, Washington's longstanding scheme to give NATO its own nuclear striking force was virtually dead before the annual spring conference began. Britain, with its own bomb, was not interested, and Charles de Gaulle was too busy developing France's force de frappe to concern himself with putting nuclear weapons in the hands of others. In fact, the U.S. itself...