Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CAMBODIA. Apart from promising Prince Norodom Sihanouk's neutralist wonderland a 500-bed hospital. Russia has left aid to Cambodia largely in the hands of Communist China, which has adopted its own version of U.S. counterpart aid schemes. Periodically Peking sends Cambodia free shipments of cotton textiles, galvanized iron, raw silk, cement and other Chinese products. These goods-last August shipments were valued at $5,000,000-are sold on the local market by the Cambodian government, and the proceeds are spent on dams, irrigation schemes and low-cost loans to farmers. The catch is that the caliber...
Eight in a Bed. Dolci spared the reader no detail, however sordid, of life in Palermo's notorious Cascino Courtyard. There, 200 yards from the city's splendid cathedral, 260 families live in squalor in 210 rooms. Only one family has a toilet, he reported; the rest run the risk of being fined $4 for relieving themselves on nearby railroad tracks. To keep alive, boys resort to stealing, girls to prostitution. "We sleep four at the top of a bed and four at the bottom," said one inhabitant. "My uncle, my husband, my sister, myself and four children...
...spend at least six months in the rigid cast, though she can now enjoy the luxury of having her head free. Then there will be a "holding jacket," reaching only to the hips, for four months; most of that time Margie, though at home, will still be lying in bed. After that, two more weeks in the hospital should see her up and about, walking straight in special shoes, with no more restraint than a snug jacket. Total treatment time: about 18 months...
...effort to promote its products. On the theory that the more fur that is seen, the more will be bought, the industry is encouraging the wide use of fur on things other than coats. There are mink-trimmed golf tees (three for $1), a $2,045 sofa bed with pillows upholstered in mink, mink-covered highball coasters (for hostesses who wish to be "dripping in mink"), and even a telephone slip cover of mink...
...M.D.C., which owns three quarters of Hell's Half Acre, including a road-bed laid five years ago, has been considering construction of a connecting highway through the area to relieve traffic congestion. The DeVoto Sanctuary group feels, however, that alternate plans can be used to relieve the bottleneck...