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...temporary curfew and Mme. Nhu's ban on dancing, Saigon's long-repressed night life flowered as never before. In bars and cabarets, the B-girls shucked the white, hospital-like smocks they had been forced to wear under the morality laws, wriggled back into their traditional slit skirts, or into U.S.-style slacks, to twist and tango with Viet and American soldiers into the small hours...
...Yale a new science complex on Pierson-Sage Square, Johnson surprised everyone by designing a turreted architecture of burnt umber brick and purplish Longmeadow stone that reflects the sullen soil of the area. So far he has finished the $3,500,000 Kline Geology Laboratory, a medieval keep whose slit windows admit daylight willy-nilly-and which one Yale Corporation member dryly describes as "solid as rock and functional as an electric log." Its fortresslike appearance will be repeated in a 13-story tower for the Kline biology quarters...
...trio for the sake of the "Coming Attractions," and for those viewers who enjoy watching seminude women. Although the imbecilic plot was meant to be bittersweet, women's leagues will probably call it tasteless, since it has the camera constantly leering at Sylvia Koscina in a blouse slit to the waist...
...Inter-Parliamentary Union conference, South Viet Nam's éminence brune announced cheerfully that the real aim of her travels was to "disperse all misunderstandings " about her country and the regime headed by her brother-in-law, Ngo Dinh Diem. Sounding like St. Joan in a slit skirt, Viet Nam's fiery First Lady announced that she and her doe-eyed, 17-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, would carry the crusade to the U.S. where she said she would "reeducate Americans" from coast to coast. Sample Nhuances...
...third day, India's Aruna Asaf Ali charged China with blocking all efforts to settle the Himalayan war with India. Out of their seats bounced two diminutive Chinese delegates who legged it to the platform in slit skirts to demand time for rebuttal, their heated words duly translated by an interpreter. A Russian official frantically wrapped her hands around the microphone; British Chairman Dr. Joan Carritt vainly jangled a bell; pro-Soviet delegates added to the uproar by shouting that the Chinese should stand down...