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...hardly a triumph of personal leadership on either side. Macmillan had been pushed by a Britain ready to take the cross-Channel plunge long before its shivering Prime Minister even stuck a toe in the water...
...down to smother it. Ricci's "Ivan the Terrible" model is a fat acorn of fur, and Cardin's "Davy Crockett" curls an entire fox (in brown, red or black) around the head. Feet, as well as bodies, are treated considerately once more after seasons of cramping toes into shoes that darted into stiletto points or simply blunted off the second joints, the rounded-toe look is back-although Dior's Roger Vivier keeps his shoes squared...
...Boyer plays Marius' father, Cesar. They are vast bladders of honor, mountains of wrath, vestfuls of selfesteem, and it is a great pleasure to watch them cheat each other at cards or craftily set a derby hat in the street and wait for a sucker to break his toe on the brick inside. Each plays the fool well, and each also accomplishes the difficult trick of playing the wise man-Chevalier when he tells his young wife of an old man's love, and Boyer when he explains to Marius that the child Marius fathered now belongs rightfully...
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...