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...votes for Veep than did Nacionalista Garcia for President. Since Macapagal refused to change his party after the election, Garcia barred him from any Cabinet post. Completely isolated ("I only learn what's going on from reading the newspapers"), Macapagal has been subjected to every kind of palace snub. If his air conditioner breaks down, maintenance men take weeks to fix it. When official limousines were handed out, he got a rattletrap that Garcia himself had long ago discarded...
Colette's equipment as a singer includes a resonant, dark-hued voice, meticulous diction, and a direct, snub-nosed charm that audiences find a welcome relief from the involuted agonizings of the Juliette Greco school. Several weeks ago she took a leave from the role that made her famous, moved to Paris' Olympia music hall. With such songs as Zon, zon, zon, L'Orphéon, and Ou va-t-on se nicher?, she brought down the house and moved the sprightly critical review Arts to lyrical flights: "She has lovely broad shoulders and fine big arms...
...parts, is so thin-skinned that it must be pressurized to stand upright; its three engines, simultaneously ignited on the ground, can generate a total thrust of between 300,000 and 400,000 lbs., or roughly what it took the Soviets to put up Sputnik II; its snub nose cone is designed to withstand the intense heat of reentry into the earth's atmosphere. Because Atlas got a later start than its Russian opposite number, its single-stage design is more modern, more foolproof than the ponderous three-stage Russian ICBM...
Shades of Emmet. Yet Casement was also writing to Irish friends about "Anglo-Britannic swine," about "the Bitch and Harlot of the North Sea." What had happened to Casement? Author MacColl suggests that some snub in the Foreign Office probably set Casement on his devious course, for he was an "oick," i.e., a social outsider. Given the man's pride, ambition, quixotic brilliance and genuine Irish patriotism, this theory is as likely as any other. Yet most of the details of Casement's attempt to win Irish independence were absurd. When he went to Germany...
...Snub-nosed, bright-eyed Princess Yasmin, 7, on leave from Mamma Rita Hayworth, who is filmmaking in California, for a holiday in France with Papa Aly Khan, trained for the event by chomping an eclair and sloshing it down with lemonade, then went to the post for the children's race at Saint-Pierre-Sur-Dives a two-to-one favorite. Steering her half-sized sulky and Shetland pony Conga, she caught the inside rail and held it, finished a three-length winner. Her purse: two kilos of hard candy. Absent from the railbirds: her horse-loving papa...