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...candid admission that the Eisenhower Administration is tailoring the nation's defense to budgetary cloth Engine Charlie added a reminder: with military technology speeding ahead (see below), a shrinkage in manpower does not necessarily mean a weakening of military wallop. "Numbers alone don't tell you the story," he said, "either for them...
...East-that such an attempt can easily lead to tragedy. When Ghazan gets wind of the fact that the Persian army is planning once again to resettle his people, he leads them into the uplands for the summer, and they resume their way of life-shearing their sheep, weaving cloth and dazzling-colored rugs. Ghazan knows that this summer idyl cannot last and that by fall he must lead his tribe back to its winter grazing grounds, to face the 20th century in the shape of the modern Persian army. Then, to fight or not to fight, that...
Disposable Clothing. Kimberly-Clark Corp., maker of Kleenex, is commercially producing a new material designed for inexpensive disposable paper clothing. An outgrowth of the search for a stronger disposable handkerchief, Kimberly-Clark's Kaycel consists of cellulose with a reinforcing webbing of thread, is already being used for disposable laboratory coats and coveralls. Other uses: throwaway raincoats, aprons, skirts and industrial caps, which may sell for less than the cost of laundering or cleaning a regular cloth...
...kept for his fun-loving consort Roza Kaganovich, Lazar's sister. Khrushchev was a good deal more useful to Stalin than many of his Kremlin dummies. Twice Stalin sent him into the Ukraine to deal with troublesome peasants and bourgeois nationalists. Nikita, dressed in a Ukrainian shirt and cloth cap, deported scores of thousands of peasants to Siberia, dismissed hundreds of Ukrainian party members. It was while on one of these assignments that he struck up an acquaintanceship with Colonel Ivan Serov, NKVD expert in genocide...
...pulled out many things: crumbling papers with writing in Tibetan and the rare Lan Cha type of the Indie alphabet, raw silk, strips of colored cloth, a chain of silver emblems, a bronze mirror, a faded silken bag made up in the shape of a human stomach containing a bewildering collection of pieces of metal, woods, seeds and beads...