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...were on hand when mink-coated Yma and three private eyes turned up looking for her orchid-and-white Cadillac convertible and a few other trifles. Yma sang a raucous duet in Spanish and English with one of Vivanco's folk dancers, concluding it abruptly with a backhanded slap across the girl's face. Soon, with flashbulbs flaring, a free-for-all, catch-as-catch-can battle was on, characterized by head-bumping, clothes-ripping, hair-pulling and name-calling, with the entire cast pitching in until the cops arrived. Yma's dark glasses fell...
...died. On top of it, as though to keep the flies off, sat a filthy felt skimmer the shape of a garbage-can lid. The soup-stained Ascot tie was asserted by a simple clothespin. The black serge suit was sizes too small and green with experience. The slap shoes were as big as cantaloupe crates...
...attitude toward the Harvard Union could be generalized into one word, that word would probably be "indifference." The solid building on Quincy Street serves his meals on cartwheel trays, houses his dances, and corrects his Gen. Ed. papers; but between these events only the click of billiard balls, the slap of a pingpong paddle, and a kitchenbroom's swish break a sluggish silence in the building. He ignores its pictures of old athletes on the walls, hangs campaign posters from mounted buffalo heads, and ties bibs around John Harvard's bust in the dining room...
...becoming more and more difficult to be both an "Eisenhower Republican" and a Jew. If the Administration continues to maintain its present policy of possible sanctions against Israel and just a slap on the wrist towards Nasser, Saud and the other decadent Arab leaders, it will have the unfortunate effect of driving us into the arms of the Democrats...
...sidelines of the U.S. defense setup. Specifically, Nickerson felt that the Army's Jupiter, a 1,500-mile intermediate-range ballistic missile, was more promising than the Air Force's I.R.B.M. Thor, and ought to be adopted. In other words, he was bent on getting the Army slap-bang into the Air Force's business of long-range strategic attack...