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...parade last week at the Manhattan gallery of Cordier & Ekstrom were half a dozen Baj generals, joined by other adroit spoofs in cloth, glass, paint and wood...
...enough to hold one man lying face down. A crewman bailing out will crawl into the capsule and detach the lifeboat from the spaceship. As soon as it is clear, nitrogen gas from a pressure vessel will inflate a pair of winglike spars made of heat-resistant woven-wire cloth. As the wings expand, the cylinder will split, forming a heat shield that will protect the leading edges of the wings. The inflated lifeboat will be an air-and space-worthy paraglider (see diagram...
...Harry Sundheim Jr., a Chicago businessman and also a collector. The dark suit was Lester Salkow, a Los Angeles theatrical agent who is Price's business manager. The three were buying original art for Sears, Roebuck, which will sell it to the public along with snow removers, Oxford cloth shirts, storm windows and mink coats...
...cutting the ration from a manageable 20.65 ft. in 1957 to its present handkerchief size. But Red China's frayed look also owes much to a deliberate decision by its leaders. "When the bad crops began in 1959," explains one Western expert in Hong Kong, "cotton and cloth was one place where you could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result: China's 1962 grain harvest was up 10% to 182 million metric tons, while the cotton crop...
...only in their piping voices. They are prodigious acrobats. Li-Pu's groom does not scale an enemy wall; he vaults over it with a somersault. The soldiers' duels mate the formality of ballet with the split-second timing of a trapeze act. Girls make ribbons of cloth hiss, curl and swirl through the air like rainbow-colored py thons. The evening's most exquisite miming re-creates a boat trip upriver. Using only two paddles as props, the players sway and dip with uncannily precise imprecision, lyrically evoking a sampan bobbing on the water...