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...Decided to name liberal Democrat Anthony Akers, 46, a three-time loser of fights for the congressional seat in Manhattan's silk-stocking 17th District (incumbent: Republican John Lindsay), as Ambassador to New Zealand...
...Thailand, where the 59-year-old Indonesian's hobbies are by now well known, the King and Queen whisked him off to languid Chiang Mai, where 300 maidens danced prettily for the visitor. When ex-Beauty Queen Rajadaporn Srivichai proffered an orchid, Sukarno gallantly reciprocated with his own silk handkerchief. "You should enter the Miss Universe beauty contest," he told...
...typewriter. "It was exactly the female kind of party that we took up a career to get out of going to," she wrote. "But somehow, at the White House, it was different." Everyone clucked about Jackie's two-piece dress, a chic understatement in beige ottoman silk, and her new chef, who had worked through the night to lay on a little buffet of pates, hams, turkeys, lobster thermidor, and Hungarian goulash. Before the dessert, Jackie stood up to welcome the women in words thai women understood...
...Buddhist temples, schools and village centers, the voters of South Viet Nam gathered last week, the women wearing their best tunics and diaphanous silk trousers. There was scattered gunfire as Communist guerrillas raided a polling place here and there. But when the returns were in, 75% of the electorate had defied Communist threats to kill anyone who voted, gave embattled President Ngo Dinh Diem a massive vote of confidence and another five-year term in office. Running against two unknowns, Diem piled up 88% of the vote...
...this is what the American people want there are American "folk singers" who chant Russian peasant songs to the accompaniment of periodic taps on the dashboard of a Mercedes sedan, or emit plantation work songs out over the violin section from the confines of tight black pants and silk shirts. These are the part-time romantics who make their deliveries without the "Alice-in-Wonderland logic" and with all the power and effectiveness of half the critical mass. The public, in its approach to the performer, cannot effectively substitute legislation for an understanding consistency of attitude which will no longer...