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...story did that; nor was my chief complaint of his podium manners. My article was a personal Impression of the man; of the tensions between his ideology and his way of life. I did not bother to write of these contradictions because I fear the student's mind is waxen, but because the student longs for an adult to champion his cause and will overlook much when rendered this service...
...Klement Gottwald, who led the party to power in 1948 (and died in 1953 of pneumonia and pleurisy contracted at Stalin's funeral) was to be moved from his mausoleum. But visiting Prague last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Ball discovered no change. Gottwald, face serene, skin unlined, waxen hands folded peacefully, still lay in his glass case amid Byzantine, marbled gloom...
...present that Bridegroom Antony Armstrong-Jones got on his return to London from his Caribbean honeymoon was news that his well-tailored effigy had mysteriously vanished from Madame Tussaud's famed wax museum. Last week, in an outdoor phone booth only a mile from Madame's, the waxen Tony was found. When "Tony" was escorted back to the waxworks, London bystanders did several double takes at what appeared to be Princess Margaret's true love on his way home after an extremely rough night...
...exciting picture of what it must be for a man to have a hive and to know just what happens inside. The bees, says Crompton, are dedicated to Mom (who breeds incessantly), but they have solved certain Oedipal problems by permitting only one mother to exist within their waxen skyscrapers, and by keeping spare mothers in reserve in sealed closets...
...decisive words came from the government's official spokesman, dour, waxen-faced Lord Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor. "The government do not think that the general sense of the community is with the committee in its recommendation, and therefore they think the problem requires further study." In other words, unless public opinion changed, the government was going to keep homosexuality on the criminal list...