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...entering a mosque. Grey cotton slippers had been prepared to slip over his shoes, but Ike decided to go all the way, shed his new black oxfords before he put on the slippers; Mamie took off her white pumps and stood in her nylons. Then they stepped across the threshold on to a carpet sent to the Washington mosque by the Shah of Iran...
...with the Algerian war. Parliamentary arithmetic ruled out any candidate without Socialist support, something Right-Winger Pinay could not get. Finally, the President summoned tall, white-haired Pierre Pflimlin, 50, to his oak-paneled office at the Elysee Palace for a two-hour talk, then walked him to the threshold and said: "Do it quickly and try to make it solid...
...talkin'." A diamond-heavy right hand jackhammered treble chords between beats; three saxes, an electric guitar, bass and drums came down hard on each syllable. Six extra loudspeakers hyped up the rainbarrel acoustics of the Dallas hall known as the Sportatorium, boosted the big noise to the threshold of pain. The kids spilled out into the aisles to rock and roll, but were herded back to their seats by a squad of 26 cops...
Sick Shell. Duncan gets a sense of dislocation as soon as he hits the once-sleepy town of Bradysboro and hears a booster babbling about the "threshold of a new era." At his family's disintegrating tobacco plantation, he finds his father a sick shell, echoing with remembrances of the South's past and pointedly deaf to the whistle of a passing train. Duncan's sister is about to marry a progressive-minded preacher who is less interested in racial equality than he is in evening the score with erstwhile "first families" like the Welshes. Logan...
Died. Dr. Lewis Madison Terman, 79, longtime Stanford University psychologist, who developed the widely used Stanford-Binet IQ test in 1916, followed up his work with a 30-year study of 1,400 California schoolchildren with IQs past the threshold of genius (140-plus); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palo Alto, Calif. Tester Terman's findings: his bright children grew up healthier, slightly wealthier and better employed than the average child, but the group contained "no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president . . . gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys ... In achieving eminence, much depends...