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...Columbine III into the overcast Georgia day at Augusta's Bush Field. A middle-aged housewife in a print dress nudged her companion. "My, he looks wonderful," she smiled, "but I sure do wish he'd cut that budget." The other lady, wearing a sweater and skirt despite the warmth of the day, nodded in agreement...
...ICBM was stripped of its shroud, its garish yellow, black and red skin exposed to the light of day. Soon more than 300 Air Force and Convair scientists, engineers and technicians were primping and pampering "the Bird," grooming its round and bulbous nose, its disproportionately thick waist, its flared skirt, its unbelievably complex and exotic mechanism. One day soon, perhaps late in April, perhaps early in May, the Bird will make its first flight. From a sickle-shaped launching pad near a sunny vacation shore the Bird will be fired, minus its warhead, on an 1,800-mile test shot...
Arriving in Manhattan for a showing of his spring creations. Paris Dressmaker Christian Dior let slip a few shapes of things to come. What next year's chic woman will look like, according to the edict of the Dioracle: her skirt will be "just a bit longer," her dress hues often favoring "toast to caramel" shades, her hat smaller, in order to show more of her face...
...short stories, those that pack a punch and those that shade a nuance. The hard-hitting tales are about the tensions of race relations, a subject that a South African writer like 32-year-old Nadine Gordimer (The Lying Days) can no more evade than a tongue can skirt a newly empty tooth socket. Author Gordimer's tactic is to blanket both races in a fog of routinely benevolent relationships and then lift it suddenly, revealing the complacent whites standing on the edge of an emotional abyss. A kindly farming couple find a strange black boy dead of pneumonia...
...hand pressed flat and white against the black skirt, the other holding the script before her, she read the Queen's description of Ophelia's drowning in a soft, haunting voice. "There is a willow grows aslant a brook...