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...great Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth approached New York Harbor with a captured Nazi flag flying at her main mast, an effect achieved by laughing, shouting soldiers. Manhattan's excitable garment workers threw tons of paper and cloth shreds into the streets...
...banged from the oriental instruments of an outlandish procession. First on a white charger rode Pandit Motilal Nehru, President of the Indian National Congress, followed by 20 elephants magnificently caparisoned. Next came famed Mahatma Gandhi, a wizened, self-starved little saint, wearing as his only garment a skimpy loin cloth-the most adored and potent man in India...
With their ultimatum in effect rejected, the Indian National Congress was at zero hour last week when Mr. Gandhi, attended by ascetic gentlemen in white loin cloths and lean ladies in pink girdles, squatted down cross-legged on the rostrum and announced that the executive committee of the Congress had adopted unanimously his draft Declaration of Independence and would put it to vote after suitable debate. As the debate began, the weather turned bitter cold. Mr. Gandhi drew a piece of cloth over his shoulders and sat quiet, knitting something woolen...
Last week U.S. and Chinese negotiators finally reached a compromise. Under the plan, which covers 33 types of products ranging from shirts to printed cloth, Chinese imports will be allowed to grow about 3% annually. After the agreement was signed, Chinese grain dealers were back in the market for U.S. wheat...
...Bradley Feige, age 11½ months, is sitting on a glass table at U.C.L.A.'s Child Study Laboratory. "Come here, Bradley, come here," his mother coaxes from the other side of the table, about six feet away. At her end, the cloth material under the glass top suddenly drops away to create the illusion that Bradley may plunge several feet if he does what his mother asks. At eight months, and again at ten months, Bradley ignored the illusion of peril and crawled across the table. Now he refuses to budge past the illusionary end of the table...