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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unofficial entertaining or dining out is almost unknown to them-every spare moment belongs to the kids. On Sunday nights the family frequently eats supper at the Columbia Country Club, the one place in Washington where the arrival of the Nixons does not set off a stir. Nixon helped build the girls a tree house in the backyard, and he and Pat are faithful members of the Sidwell Friends School P.T.A. "Even though I'm gone a lot, I concentrate on the girls when I'm home," says Pat, "and I think I give them more attention than...
...Lise, daughter of a prosperous farmer, falls in love with a strapping lad named Colas, but is opposed by her mother, who wants her to marry Alain, idiot son of a wealthy vineyard owner. Lovers outwit mother, amor vincit omnia, curtain. The original score was probably written by an unknown member of the Bordeaux Grand Theater Orchestra, was later revised by Ferdinand Herold, chorus master of the Paris Opera, who included such pirated tidbits as the overture to Barber of Seville, As for the choreography-originally by Jean Bercher (1742-1806), known professionally as Dauberval and regarded as the father...
Vanity & Sport. Grinding the tiny, feather-light plastic lenses is technically so difficult that eye practitioners do not attempt it themselves, leave it to specially equipped laboratories. These labs do not sell directly to the public, so they remain unknown, though Chicago's Plastic Contact Lens Co., the giant in the field, has made more than 4,000,000 pairs in ten years. Average price to ophthalmologists and optometrists: $50 to $60 a pair. After fair charges for examinations, fittings and corrections, the practitioner may collect $150 to $300 from an average patient. Those with special problems must expect...
...into a copy of The Merry Muses of Caledonia (the notorious anthology that the poet made to amuse his drinking companions). Max Arbuthnot, a goatish old Edinburgh lawyer with a fondness for '27 port and women of about the same vintage, undertakes to sell the smoldering and hitherto unknown holograph for his impoverished sister. He shows it to a fey, gloomy poet nicknamed Yacky Doo, who amuses himself alternately with a beckoning death wish and with Arbuthnot's married daughter...
Next day she was even better in the hell-bent downhill, daringly shaving her final turn to finish in a time of 1:57.1 that seemed good enough to win. But while chatting confidently with newsmen, Penny learned that it was not that easy: an unknown Austrian 16-year-old named Traudl Hecher had snatched away first place with...