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...cloud-soft "swans" of England's Royal Ballet last week skimmed through a rehearsal of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a small woman with grey sculptured hair clapped her hands to halt the piano in the pit of the Metropolitan Opera House. "What on earth are the swans doing? Really!" She asked in a voice edged with impatience. "Movements on strong beats, please. You understand, don't you?" And "Isn't this lighting brighter than in the first...
After many a summer came the swan song of Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, 75. Retiring after 25 years in the Senate, conscientious Joe O'Mahoney, who suffered a stroke last year, came onto the floor in a wheelchair to introduce a bill regulating insurance rates. Speaking at the length that had earned him the title of "the most de liberative member of the world's most deliberative body," O'Mahoney referred only once to his leavetaking: "I regret that I shall not be a member of the Senate next year when...
...women's 3-meter springboard dive, California's favored Paula Jean Myers Pope, a 25-year-old dental technician, looked more like an ugly duckling than a swan in her opening try ("I went over too far and the entry was bad"), never did recover and finished second to East Germany's cool Ingrid Kramer, a 17-year-old student who started diving five years ago when her father decided to make her into an athlete and pitched her into the pool. The loss was the first ever suffered by the U.S. in the event...
...VICE PRESIDENT NIXON, who was once a fair fiddler (he played in the Fullerton, Calif. High School orchestra) but now prefers to relax by playing the piano, picked Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. His true favorites, he added, are sentimental ones: the score from Oklahoma! (because it was the first show that he and Pat saw after moving to Washington) and Mexican folk songs (because they remind him of his honeymoon south of the border). ¶LYNDON JOHNSON, an indiscriminate admirer of Strauss waltzes, was understandably careful to ask also for such Western folk songs as Bury...
...said, it "rang with the sound of freedom." She wore a $75,000 string of pearls to enhance her own designs. To achieve dramatic effects she often mixed these with costume jewelry which she introduced to the world of high fashion. Quick tongued and beautiful ("Like a little black swan," said Cocteau; "like a little black bull," said Colette), Coco had one love affair after another, though she never married. One of her most persistent admirers was the Duke of Westminster, who employed three couriers running between London and Paris with their love letters. When he finally proposed, Coco turned...