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...repeatedly across the border. Included in their attacks was the city of Amritsar, whose Golden Temple is the holiest of holies to all Sikhs. At Agra, which was bombed in the Pakistanis' first blitz, the Taj Mahal was camouflaged with a forest of twigs and leaves and draped with burlap because its marble glowed like a white beacon in the moonlight...
...Pakistan's eastern wing, it contributed between 50% and 70% of that country's foreign exchange earnings but received only a small percentage in return. The danger to East Bengal's economy lies mainly in the fact that it is heavily based on jute and burlap, and synthetic substitutes are gradually replacing both. But if it can keep all of its own foreign exchange, as it now will, it should be able to develop other industries. It will also open up trade with India's West Bengal, and instead of competing with India, may frame joint marketing policies with...
...remedies. They swatted the bugs with shovels, burned them with blow torches. Mrs. Marie Rusicka of Marlboro, N.J., actually spent three hours every day hand-picking the bugs off her trees. To keep caterpillars on the ground from climbing to the greenery, some citizens wrapped tree trunks with greased burlap bandages, then every evening stamped out the squishy bugs...
...porch. Phillips recalls that trucks used to oil the dirt road in front of her house to keep the dust down and that Hampton phone numbers "were particularly easy to remember. They consisted of only two digits." At age eleven, she tried cotton picking: "I can still feel the burlap bag cutting into my shoulder." Twelve years later she dropped out of the University of Georgia to work for the Atlanta Constitution, joined the Washington Post in 1968. She frequently covered civil rights stories while a reporter and has kept up with the field since joining TIME last July...
POLYURETHANE CAVE. Several Manhattan designers have an answer for those who literally want to return to the simplicity of the cave. They spray polyurethane foam over wire, burlap and wood forms-or even balloons -strategically placed in a room. Within a day, the stuff hardens into a tough, mildew-proof mass with planned recesses and protrusions that take the place of furniture. The corners of windows are filled in, leaving a rounded opening, and the sills are comfortably padded. The total effect, say those who live in the caves, is like a womb with a view...