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...than a year ago, India's ruling Congress Party has been plagued by what Delhi euphemists call "fissiparous tendencies." Put more bluntly, many's the politician who lusts for Prime Minister Lai Bahadur Shastri's job. Among the splittists: left-leaning ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon; sloe-eyed Indira Gandhi (Nehru's daughter), Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Nehru's sister), and former Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 69, who was Shastri's chief rival for the prime ministry. Last week at Bangalore, Desai made his play...
...Sometimes, they have stood in front. Still celebrated are the two Trung sisters who mounted elephants to lead a revolt against Chinese overlords in 40 A.D. More recently, Madame Nhu carried the banner in Saigon toward the end of the Diem regime and thought it only proper that her sloe-eyed daughter, Le Thuy, receive a pistol for her 18th birthday...
...artist to see the lyrical in the prosaic is comprehensible, and perhaps the essence of his trade-but the other way around? Moreau is a lovely woman, not a sloe-eyed Orphan Annie advertising 50 cigars to the 12th century. Please, next time find someone who can draw...
Girls prowl the store like hunters on safari. They are identically sleek and skinny, lean and hungry, sloe-eyed, long-legged, small-hipped and jazzy. The jungle's name is Jax, and the girls know what they have come for: slacks that cling like oil to water...
...barren of sex, in fact, that only last week Universal Pictures had to hold a beauty contest in New York's Americana Hotel in order to find three girls to add wattage to a promotion for its new film, The Brass Bottle, which stars the shapely, sultry, sloe-eyed Burl Ives...