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...Some 2,000 Colorado Shriners dressed up like Arabs and went to the Great Sand Dunes National Monument for an induction ceremony. They penetrated the sandy wastes in tractor-drawn wagons, put up a ceremonial tent, ate barbecued buffalo and applauded dancing girls whom they had brought along to undulate on the sands...
...with nothing better to do had gathered for the 174th meeting of the United Nations Security Council. A matron in a garden party hat, who seemed to have materialized in plump perfection from a Helen Hokinson cartoon, roguishly asked a U.N. guard: "Is this the way to the Big Tent?" In one of the main conference chambers, a husky man with a mallet walked up to a side wall and started to hammer away. The four-inch cinder blocks crumbled under his blows. Soon a vast, vandalistic hole gaped in the wall...
Before the first meeting ended Idaho's tent-show Senator Glen Taylor had yodeled and played his guitar, and Congressman Homer Angell of Oregon had urged the elders "not to despair or grow weary." But Dr. Townsend said not a word. He sat on the platform, twiddling his thumbs...
...Reed-Bulwinkle Bill was a long-sought boon. It would exempt them from the antitrust laws. The railroads could agree among themselves on rates, as long as they were approved by the ICC. But to a handful of Senators, the bill was a camel's nose beneath the tent of antitrust legislation. They feared the whole camel would soon be inside...
...fretted on either count. The sun shone brightly over Buckingham Palace for their Majesties' second presentation garden party of the year. "It's a plummy peach of a day, isn't it?" said chic Peggy Douglas, wife of U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, in the diplomatic tea tent. As for curtsies, the 100-odd Americans mingled with the 5,000 Britons at the party found it hard to get close to royalty. Mrs. Adele Vercoe, who is an old hand at such functions, having lived in England on & off for years, managed a quick bob before the Queen...