Word: claddings
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...veto acts of British Governor General Sir Robert Howe, uncrowned monarch of the Sudan. Two Sudanese, an Egyptian, an Englishman and a Pakistani will form the commission; thus it will have a Moslem majority-a concession by the British, who had long argued that the 2,000,000 half-clad, ignorant natives of the South Sudan had to be protected against the Arab majority in the north...
...rescuers standing by at Hunstanton, Norfolk, when the seawall broke, isolating 35 bungalows. An Air Force Weasel set out to rescue the cottagers and was swamped. A motor-launch crew tried three times to breast the gale and was blown back. Without a word to anyone, Reis Leming, clad in a rubber "exposure suit," waded into the icy waters, pushing a rubber raft ahead of him. Often the water swirled above his head, but "I just hung on until I could get a foothold again," he said...
...growing German influence in Egypt is best shown by the mufti-clad crew of 30 Germans that moved quietly into Cairo two years ago and, in effect, replaced the British mission to advise Egypt's army. Today its chief, Dr. Wilhelm Voss, onetime head of the Wehrmacht's Central Armaments Supply Board, sits in the office of the Minister of War & Marine (the minister: Naguib himself), bossing Egypt's Central Planning Board. Voss's men, recruited from former SS leaders, Panzer commanders and naval captains, permeate Egypt's entire military establishment-training, advising and teaching...
...view. Longtime foes were temporarily softened by his warmth and perkiness. Democrats were stirred to nostalgia by his last annual economic report. Said Harry, conjuring up visions of Franklin Roosevelt: "In the mid-1930s, it was no exaggeration to speak of one-third of a nation ill-fed, ill-clad and ill-housed. Since then, the one-third has been reduced to one-fifth or maybe less...
...frequently and so well. The action takes place in an ancient, crumbling Scottish edifice that is "held up only by the ivy." Among its occupants: the impoverished 19th Earl of Locharne (David Tomlinson), who has lost just about everything but his sense of humor; an eccentric, kilt-clad dame (Margaret Rutherford), who is bent on establishing the earl as the rightful sovereign of Scotland; a National Coal Board man (Brian Oulton), who is assigned to commandeer the castle as a hostel for miners. The plot is thickened by a wealthy American widow (Barbara Kelly...