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...finally going to spell out the kind of international atomic control they would accept. Andrei Gromyko turned up that morning in what looked like a brand-new tropical suit. Actually, Gromyko's grey suit was five years old. The new Russian control plan was also cut from old cloth...
Quick Peek. After the procession passed, everyone surged toward the Palace. While the crowd roared good-natured advice, five elderly gentlemen hastened to drape the royal balcony with a huge bolt of gold-trimmed cloth. The royal foursome stepped out, waving and smiling while the crowd sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" Five minutes later the King shepherded his family back in. Someone spied Queen Mary in a courtyard below. "We want Queen Mary!" the crowd shouted, but the Queen Mother ignored them.* A minute later the crowd's attention was directed elsewhere. In an upper...
Princeton's Christian Gauss, 69, who started out to be a poet and ended as a famed, judiciously quizzical dean, emerged from retirement last week to wing a few cloth-yard shafts at the target of U.S. education. The onlookers at Princeton-about 75 secondary-schoolmen -had to admit that he hit the target with some smacking bull's-eyes. Said Dean Gauss...
Surplus Cotton. But the production of "gray goods" (unbleached cottons) has already run ahead of the export demand. Now, with 120 million yards of gray goods on its hands, U.S.C.C. has had to turn to U.S. textile mills for help. Last month, it asked U.S. exporters to buy the cloth and finish it in U.S. mills for export. But with the sellers' market about gone in cotton goods, U.S. textilemen are protesting against the finishing of cloth that may soon be in competition with their own products...
U.S.C.C. may run into trouble on another front. Mississippi's Senator James Eastland recently talked the Army into using only American raw cotton in Japan until at least the end of 1947. Other big raw cotton exporters, like India, one of U.S.C.C.'s best customers for Japanese cloth, are sure to fight for their prewar share of the Japanese market...