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WELL, IF IT ISN'T GRANNY IN TIGHTS, leered the London Daily Herald. LEGS, panted the Daily Mail. What excited Fleet Street was a novel slice of cheesecake: pert, serious Cinemactress Vivien Leigh, wife of Sir Laurence Olivier, and a grandmother at 45. Last week trim Lady Olivier slipped on a red satin bathing suit and black mesh stockings, made a slinky, twittery TV debut as Sabina, the talkative, never-say-die seductress-maid in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth. Critical verdict: Vivien once more proved that good legs are a ho-hum show...
...burdened B-52 climbed to 38,000 ft., which is the altitude where the X-15 will be launched in free flight. In the dense lower air the off-center weight called for trim adjustments, but at the critical launch height and speed Mach 0.8, there was no trouble at all. After 70 minutes B-52 Pilot Charles Bock gently eased the coupled pair back down to a landing...
...they didn't wait for long. The nodding dilettantes of the 11 o'clock crowd poured in one night and the walls were painted a new and shining yellow, with a bluish trim. Gone were the spattered woodwork and the coffee stains; and there were curtains in the front. The window-sitters looked up from their game of Flarg occasionally, and chuckled unconvincingly...
Gradually, a compromise was hammered out. The Governor agreed to cut $40 million from the budget and to trim his tax proposals, but not crucially. For example, he offered a gross tax credit of $25 per married couple instead of $10 per adult; he continued forgiveness on 1958 income as he shifted the state to a pay-as-you-go basis, but canceled forgiveness of capital-gains taxes. Finally, one midnight Republican leaders led Rocky to their Capitol hideaway, broke out ice and bottles, clinked glasses to victory...
Periodic physical checkups, sometimes lasting a week or longer, have become an accepted ritual for the high-powered, high-priced organization man (TIME, Jan. 21. 1957), and one thing they have turned up is that many an executive in good physical trim has a headful of emotional problems. Last week Connecticut's Silver Hill Foundation announced that it is inviting corporations to send executives in for a six-day emotional checkup...