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...their appreciation was the visitor's daughter, Galina Brezhnev, a tall, striking blonde of 18, who could well turn out to be the Kremlin's answer to Jackie Kennedy. While Papa toured collective farms and industrial plants, Galina stole the show in her dazzling French dresses, Italian spike heels, and huge, dangling earrings. Making her debut on the diplomatic circuit, she completely overshadowed Nikita Khrushchev's daughter Rada, wife of Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, who was also along on the trip. In contrast to Galina's exhibition of haute couture, Rada "left the impression...
...make one of his twice-daily calls to Hyannisport to check on his vacationing family. Sometimes the President paced in the White House gardens. Or, alone at sundown, he stood on Harry Truman's balcony overlooking the White House fountain, a soothing sight before him: the white spike of the Washington Monument, auto headlights flickering along Executive Avenue, the distant Jefferson Memorial. Perhaps such sights make a President think of his own place in history-but John Kennedy is not a man to stop thinking for long about the present...
...shined her sharptoed, spike-heeled shoe...
...longer must the working girl, determinedly fashionable even while fighting for her spike-heeled balance on the subway, change at the office to the good old loafers stashed in her desk. No more must suburban housewives, in town for a day's shopping and a night's entertainment, lug their evening shoes (concealed in paper bags) around with them until dinner and high-heel time. Says Designer David Evins, a pioneer of the walking shoe: "Women want to get away from the 4-in. needle heel. It has an artificial look. Today there is a feeling of desiring...
...morning at Trung Lap, Sergeant Guy Williams, a U.S. medic, gives free treatment to local peasants. They line up at his thatch-roofed "office," exposing their sores of yaws and jungle rot. Sometimes a hobbling peasant arrives with his foot pierced by a Communist shoe-mine-a viciously barbed spike planted in jungle trails. Two orphan sisters of 7 and 10 trudged in. Both had been wounded five days before by steel splinters from a Viet Cong grenade...