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Fact of Geography. True, the West now holds these rights precariously. A solemn and public reafnrmation of these rights, as Khrushchev has invitingly pointed out. might well improve the West's position. The fact remains that no guarantee, no treaty, no Russian commitment however solemn, can change geography. Berlin would still remain deep behind the Iron Curtain, at the mercy of the Russians any time that they find an excuse to break their agreement. In any case, the West is not prepared to break out its full assortment of possible concessions unless Moscow is willing to broaden negotiations beyond...
Noting that "hair styling is a key element of fashion for the first time since the days of the French courts," the tastemaking Coty American Fashion Critics' Awards committee broke 18-year precedent to anoint a coiffeur. The man of the hour at the solemn presentation ceremonies in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mr. Kenneth (surname back home in Syracuse, N.Y.: Battelle), who was already famed as clippers and comb expert for Marilyn Monroe, Tina Onassis and Judy Garland, but who achieved the bouffant ("I like to call it uncontrived fullness") summit with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...
...happily carried water from his stream and cut wood with a chain saw. For company he hiked across the river to Windsor, Vt., and passed the time with teen-agers in a juke joint called Nap's Lunch. The kids loved him, but mothers worried that the tall, solemn writer fellow from New York would put their children in a book...
Sonny, as he was then called, a solemn, polite child who liked to take long walks by himself, had no brothers and only one sister, Doris, who was eight years older than he. Salinger once said that Seymour and Holden were modeled after a dead school friend, so reporters and Ph.D. candidates are forever searching for him. At least two of the author's prep school acquaintances died young, one of them a boy of great brilliance. But intensive detective work shows that Salinger, like a lonely child inventing brothers and sisters, has drawn most of his characters...
...dangerous Red challenge of all: a Soviet threat to cut off Allied air access to the beleaguered city. Kennedy reacted swiftly and with unmistakable determination. The White House issued a statement that ranks as one of the toughest of the cold war: "The United States must serve a solemn warning to the Soviet Union that any interference by the Soviet Government or its East German regime with free access to West Berlin would be an aggressive act for the consequences of which the Soviet Government would bear full responsibility." This week the U.S. and Britain are preparing to send...