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About the only group not consulted was Imam Mohammed and his royalists, whose grip on Yemen has dwindled from half the country to the mountain spine in central Yemen. Some 25,000 armed supporters of the Imam are still in action and still dangerous, but they are increasingly isolated, and short of fuel and weapons. With the royalists cut off from Saudi supplies, Nasser may well be able gradually to consolidate his gains, cut down on his commitments, and ultimately complete his victory by admitting republican Yemen into his grandiose scheme for a new United Arab Republic...
...finds herself described (by such an expert as Designer Cecil Beaton) as "an authoritative crane." Though she is a generous flatterer of the physical attributes of others, even her own admiring friends must strain to return a compliment ("Well," said one, straining, "she has a strange and marvelous spine"). Her walk has been described as a camel's gait, her nose as something stolen off a cigar-store Indian. Yet thousands of women cut their hair because of her, cream their skins, shorten their sleeves, and belt their coats, all at the iron whim of a woman whose face...
...evening wore on, slides of naked women were projected, suggesting that pornography has its place among the neo-Palladian splendors of the alabaster city. Waiters spilled bits of plastic from trays onto the audience. A woman came on wearing a shredded American flag on her head; her spine was as stiff as a flagpole. It had to be, since it was part of the monument to the victory at Iwo Jima, and three soldiers held her at the appropriate tilt. A 14-year-old boy in a Lincolnesque beard entered the room, was shown to his seat, and sat there...
...communicate with the white people in Mississippi," Hollis Watkins, another SNCC worker, added. Since SNCC began its latest registration campaign in Green wood, Miss., there have been two shootings and a number of burnings in reprisal. One SNCC worker, James Travis, was shot through the spine and nearly killed. "That was the only time when the Negro community talked of violence," said Hayes...
...Spine Tingler. "There are some things Edie won't do, but nothing she can't do," said Groucho Marx, introducing her present show at a hotel on the Las Vegas strip. This statement could only be half right, since Edie does have her limitations. She is no Judy Garland. But nonetheless she is an above-average singer who is also an amusing comedienne and a pretty, been-around blonde with a spooky resemblance to Marilyn Monroe. The resemblance is so spooky, in fact, that she has had to drop Marilyn from her repertory of impressions (Jeanette MacDonald, Shirley...