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Catalog freaks would recognize Easton as an L.L. Bean kind of town. On second thought, that may be a little narrow. It is a Bean-Gokeys-Orvis-Eddie Bauer-Lands' End kind of town; it spreads its trade around. Topsiders, penny loafers, khaki pants, monogrammed sweaters, oxford-cloth shirts, lamb suede jackets and the ever present tweed, to say nothing of argyle socks, contribute heavily to the Easton uniform. Easton was preppie when preppie wasn't cool. Ducks embellish its mailboxes; there are ducks on its welcome mats. It is a place of fine old houses hugging tidy...
...father, a mother to her two sons, a savior of the oppressed people of Bangladesh, military leader of the Indian army, writer, intellectual, stateswoman, politician, party-leader, tyrant, dictator and leader of the largest democracy in the world. We saw her as a Gandhian, dressed in "khadi," or handspun cloth, tirelessly travelling through the villages of India. We saw her at the White House, resplendent in her brocades, charming President Kennedy. We saw her as an international leader of the non-aligned movement and the Commonwealth of Nations. We saw her haggard face as she knelt upon the ground examining...
...cuts a strikingly distinctive figure. Generally tall and strapping, he sports a thick beard and, over his uncut hair, a turban wrapped of 15 ft. of elegantly coiled and pleated cloth. He takes as one of his names "Singh" (lion). He does not smoke or chew tobacco, and he eats the meat only of an animal that has been slain with one decisive stroke. In accordance with his religion, he at all times wears the five Ks: kes (long hair); kach (short trousers); kara (a steel bracelet on his right wrist); kangha (a comb); and kirpan (a curved dagger). Holding...
...then she added, "On the contrary, I felt rather deprived of everything." After another pause, Gandhi began talking about when she was three and all her English dolls and dresses had to be destroyed because Indian nationalists were boycotting foreign goods. "My first memory was of burning foreign cloth and imported articles in the courtyard of the house. The whole family...
...that had gone before, as well as apprehensions for what was to come. In a red-carpeted chamber of Peking's Great Hall of the People, the British Ambassador to China, Sir Richard Evans, sat at one end of a long table covered with a green-tasseled cloth. At the other end sat Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zhou Nan. Behind them, the 50 or so officials from both countries, who had endured 22 rounds and 24 months of serpentine negotiation, stood stiffly at attention. Finally, the two men appended their initials to a series of documents, smiled, stood...