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...dressed in crown-shaped hats, yellow sailor-type collars, ballooning gold pants. gold sashes and white masks. Next came the "King," Louisiana Industrialist (forest products) Parrish Fuller, who was costumed in a jeweled crown, aquamarine pasha pants and cloak. Then 26 pretty Louisiana "queens" - Yambilee (i.e., yams) Queen, Shrimp Queen, Cotton Queen, Livestock and Pasture Queen, etc. -each accompanied by a masked "Duke" in wig, buckled shoes and knee breeches. Each queen curtsied low to the evening's guests of honor, Vice President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat. Nixon responded to each with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Mardi Gras on the Potomac | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

After the procession was over, the dance floor looked and sounded like dockside when the shrimp boats come in: the U.S. Navy's top dog, Admiral Arleigh Burke, resplendent in dress uniform, hopped and dipped in a modified hornpipe; Minnesota's eupeptic Senator Hubert Humphrey, in white tie and tails, exulted in his triumph as a handsome hit, allowed as how he had it over Florida's George Smathers and Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, the two acknowledged best-looking men in the Senate. George Smathers scarcely missed a dance, raced to and fro between his table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Mardi Gras on the Potomac | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...crew when their destroyer sank in the early days of World War II, and now Mature is grimly determined to make every carchariid in creation pay the reckoning. Assigned to accelerate research on shark repellents. Mature moves in on a sluggish school of scientists like a shovelnose on shrimp. Everything from poison to ultrasonics has been tried, but only copper acetate and octopus juice seem to have much effect on the brutes. However, neither of these is strong enough. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Those who wait for Communism to change, Russia's Nikita Khrushchev crowed not long ago with a bravado that impressed much of the world, "might better wait until a shrimp learns to whistle." The eerie sound that penetrated the Kremlin last week from out of satellite-land was suspiciously like just such a whistle. Communism's leaders watched their authority flouted, their names assailed, their puppets overthrown, their flags torn down, their soldiers shooting down workers. In a few short days, these unpleasant truths were thrust upon the Soviet high command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE KREMLIN: The Crisis of Communism | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...important because not all of the movie could be shot at the real reef in the Bahamas. The group used Marineland's tanks, for instance, to photograph the birth of 200 sea horses from their father's brood pouch. This sequence, together with those of octupus courtship, the pistol shrimp's theft of an arrow crab's meal, and the molting of a spiny lobster's skin-skeleton somehow make a whole...

Author: By Jonathan Beecher, | Title: Secrets of the Reef | 10/24/1956 | See Source »

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