Word: six-year-old
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...public reception atop Lenin's Tomb in Red Square, six-year-old pig-tailed Natasha Popovich stood at her father's side and happily waved at the 80,000 people jammed in the square below. Then it was time for speeches; sure enough, the Russians could not resist the chance to turn space prowess into political profit. "The group flight in outer space is one more vivid proof of the superiority of socialism over capitalism," said Nikolayev, or "Falcon," as he called himself during his globe-circling orbits. Added Popovich. whose orbital name was "Golden Eagle": "Across...
...wife and marrying Marie-Thérèse, who is 25 years younger. Today the Ivory Coast's First Lady is coifed by one of the most exclusive Parisian hair dressers (Carita), and dressed by Dior, whose salon is strategically located across the street from the Houphouet-Boignys' apartment. She prefers pastels and bright colors and, says her Dior salesgirl, "would never touch anything black." The affluent Houphouet-Boignys also have a villa in the stylish Swiss resort of Gstaad (her six-year-old adopted daughter, Hélène, is attending school in Switzerland...
Oona and Charlie sleep in twin four-posters. He rises at 10 a.m., has his daily Turkish bath and, in winter, jogs around his property wearing three sweaters and an overcoat. He has taken up skiing, and he falls all over the slopes like a six-year-old, but he is trying hard to conquer the sport. In warm weather, he plays tennis and does calisthenics every day on the lawn. Sometimes he sips bourbon, which he once called "the only good thing America produces," but he never smokes and will not permit visitors to light up in his presence...
...never tasted whale steak. Otherwise he would never describe the Attorney General as "munching manfully on a whale steak." While in Norway three years ago, we went to a fishmonger's to buy dinner. Imagine our surprise when a shopper advised us to try the whale steak. Try it we did that evening and found it to be perfectly tender and delicious. We could not tell it from a juicy sirloin. Our six-year-old ate it with gusto...
...against the shadowy Viet Cong, a Vietnamese official pointed out last week, are "like playing soccer with a tennis racket." Despite an impressive speedup in the flow of U.S. supplies, for example, Saigon warehouses are stacked with deteriorating carbines, cloth, medical and communications equipment. Reason: Diem's six-year-old army has made no" provision to handle the increased flow. Many combat units have to use guns that have no gun sights or are so badly worn that they jam more often than they fire. Yet new U.S. weapons seem to reach the Viet Cong in quantity...