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...cloth, now ready for cutting, is spead in specified lengths on which patterns are laid and marked. Cutters then chop through 20-25 layers of fabric at a time...
...attitude automatically assigns justice and sympathy to the side of the Buddhists, who are well aware of their favored position. Before the first bonze set fire to himself, the leaders of the Buddhist uprising tipped off a Western reporter in advance. When a young Buddhist girl tried to chop off her hand in protest against government repressions, there were reports that the Buddhists delayed her trip to a hospital for 40 minutes until the last photographer had his pictures...
Strong words? Perhaps. But consider the carat of the films displayed at the first New York Film Festival. The program was restricted to new pictures never before seen in the U.S., but the festival's director found a score of excellent shorts and half a dozen top-chop features. Among them...
Winding past Pork Chop Hill, Heartbreak Ridge, Old Baldy and other blood-drenched ground, the Military Demarcation Line runs for 151 miles across the waist of Korea. It was drawn at a cost of 1,820,000 casualties, including 33,629 U.S. dead and 103,284 wounded...
...Maisonette), has canceled plans to open a $150,000 supper club, says that the decline in his business during the past three months means that he will pay $21,000 less in taxes and his employees will get considerably reduced bonuses. In Detroit's fanciest restaurants, the London Chop House and the Caucus Club, business is off about 25%, and the entertainment has been reduced accordingly. At Trader Vic's in San Francisco, says Manager Rainer G. Baldauf, "two well-heeled customers are coming in where there used to be four, and four where there used...