Word: toe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While slipping into her summer-stock Silk Stockings at San Diego, leggy (39 in. from hipbone to toe) Juliet Prowse, 24, obliquely discussed her durable relationship with Frank Sinatra. Although allowing that he might consider her "dingaling" and perhaps had "flipped," the sinuous dancer was hardly ready to spill the banns. In the argot of the Rat Pack, explained she, "flip" means "to like someone an awful lot but not necessarily to fall in love. It's more like an urge...
Nervously, he paced the halls, conferring with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson. Then Khrushchev came. While photographers wrestled desperately for shots, Kennedy stood back from his guest, bluntly and openly surveying him from head to toe. But Kennedy also offered a dab of graceful deference. When cameramen shouted for another handshake, Kennedy turned to his interpreter: "Say to the Chairman that it is all right to shake hands if it is all right with him." Khrushchev beamed wider than ever, stuck out a fleshy hand for the pose. The formalities...
...trading agency. But Toure's recent concession that Guinea's economy has room for private companies, too, has sparked the company's hopes of resuming operations. "Size is not a bad thing in Africa," muses a company executive. "Without it, we could not have held a toe hold in Guinea...
Tough Tenors: The Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet (Jazz-land). Two saxmen of the hard-bop persuasion trade heated solos like a couple of alternately firing spark plugs. Most successful combustions: Funky Fluke, a scrambling exercise in sheer speed, and the old favorite, Tickle Toe...
...Washington Conversation, Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater last week all but dismissed Re publican chances for retaking the presidency in 1964. Said he: "The history of this century shows that Presidents are re-elected for a second term - unless some thing very bad happens. Unless Kennedy stubs his toe, I would say that history would be against us." No such thing, said California's Richard Nixon, emerging from meetings with lo cal Republicans to announce that he will start a national politicking swing about May I to discuss the errors of the "first 100 days of the Kennedy...