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...Washington, Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and the White House were determined that Wallace would not get his way. For days the Attorney General and his staff studied a variety of contingency plans. They examined maps, plotted troop movements. Deputy Attorney General Nick Katzenbach set up headquarters in Tuscaloosa. Federal marshals were assembled. Justice Department Aide John Doar briefed the two prospective Negro students ("You should dress as though you were going to church, modestly, neatly...
...Angelica's Bequest. Half of the original 14 who showed at Florence were soldiers. Using portable easels and small canvases, they painted things that academicians shuddered at-prostitutes, troop maneuvers and barefoot peasantry. Then they turned to the subject matter that early French impressionism grew fat upon: landscapes populated by rocks and sheep, woodsmen warming in a shack, wheat harvests, the faces of peasants-all done in the subdued tonalities of their dulcet quattrocento ancestors, Fra Angelico, Domenico Veneziano and Piero della Francesca. This week in Manhattan, a show of 92 works goes on view at the American Federation...
Iced Tea & Bourbon. Bill's drinking was such common gossip in Oxford that when he tried to organize a Boy Scout troop one winter he was denounced as unfit by the minister of the Baptist Church. But most of his drunks, says Brother John, were just play acting. He would go for weeks without taking a drink and then a call would come from his wife Estelle that it was time to come and "sober Billie up." That job usually fell to Mother Faulkner, a tiny, fiercely energetic woman who understood Billie's desire to be waited...
Todd in Uniform. Though Author Ferber indulges in no idle name-dropping, people like the Lunts, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Noel Coward and George Kaufman troop through the pages of her book. In her one stage appearance in The Royal Family, a savagely funny take-off of the Barrymores, which she wrote with Kaufman, Louis Calhern accidentally dropped her on her bottom as he carried her up a stage staircase. In Paris during the last days of World War II, she met Mike Todd decked out in what appeared to be a porter's uniform decorated with countless rows of ribbons...
...pillboxes, bunkers, etc. less than 20 miles away), the 12-mile Honest John and the 10-mile Little John, the 1,200-yard Davy Crockett (smallest of all the nuclear weapons, it can be hauled about on a Jeep, is designed to blast such targets as tanks, gun emplacements, troop concentrations). The Navy has the 8-mile Asroc and the 11-mile Astor (both ship-launched torpedoes), the 65-mile Talos (a ship-launched, 1,850-m.p.h. antiaircraft and shore-bombardment weapon), the not-yet-operational 25-mile Subroc (a submarine-launched antisubmarine rocket), and the Navy and Air Force...