Word: closed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long a close-kept secret both as to precise location and physical description, Camp David last week was briefly opened to newsmen for a rare look. Its 184 acres on the east slope of Catoctin Mountain are surrounded by a 12-ft. barbed-wire fence, with Marine sentries endlessly pacing the perimeter-at night just inside a ring of blazing spotlights. Gravel walks wind amid wild cherry and red oak trees to converge on the President's rustic-timber one-story cottage, named "Aspen" by Mamie Eisenhower. Leaning against one wall stood Dwight Eisenhower's red and blue...
...joined the secret party, led by General Mark Clark, that slipped into North Africa by submarine in 1942, to find French commanders who would defy Vichy and support the forth coming invasion.* Like Clark (who lost his pants while scurrying back to the waiting submarine), Lemnitzer had some close calls: he had to hide in a wine cellar when nosy Vichy French gendarmes came to investigate curious circumstances at the clandestine meeting place; later, en route to Torch headquarters in Gibraltar, his B-17 was attacked by three Nazi JU-88s, which wounded the copilot...
...getting ready to die with honor," said Grivas, "the tommy was only calling to his friends to move on." Another time, Grivas was bathing in a stream when British troops appeared near by. He hid naked behind tall reeds until the British moved on. "They came that close to us many times...
...latest thing at Sears, Roebuck is hair mail. Out from Sears in discreetly unmarked white envelopes all this month went 30,000 catalogues devoted wholly to its new line of men's "career-winning toupees." They ranged from the close-cropped Ivy League crew cut to the long-haired Hollywood model. Balding buyers measure their crowns with a tape sent by Sears, outline their open spaces on paper, pay $109.95 to $224.95 for a toupee-20% down, the rest in six installments. With proper care, which means alternating it with a second wig and sending it back to Sears...
...started advertising hair pieces in major magazines and newspapers five years ago. Since then, annual sales of such bigwigs as Hollywood's Max Factor & Co., Manhattan's House of Louis Feder Inc., and Joseph-Fleischer & Co. (Fleischer will make the Sears toupees from imported hair) have climbed close to $1,000,000 each. Total U.S. sales are estimated at $15 million a year. Says Louis Feder, a wigger himself: "We have put across the idea that a man is not completely dressed unless he has hair...