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...wears star-studded trousers, red-and-white-striped bikinis, or displays flags superimposed with symbols of peace? Let us stand up for and preserve the ideals that this country and its flag represent, but please let's don't bow down and worship a piece of cloth as a false idol...
...American visitor, aghast at such wiggling disrespect, remonstrated to a retired Royal Navy commander. This very model of Britain's Establishment explained: "Our flag's not the Holy Grail; it's only a bit of cloth. In the services, when we've done with it, we put it to polishing boots or brass...
...know it was marijuana. After a heart attack four years ago, Carrozzi testified at his trial last week, he visited his native village, Camarda in the Abruzzi Mountains and brought back a packet of canapa seeds. Camardans, he recalled from his youth, used canapa fibers to make thread and cloth. Its seeds are used in soups and candies. "The kids," Carrozzi related, "used to carry them in their pockets and eat them like peanuts." Ironically, only the leaves are thrown away...
Anticipating a holier-than-thou response from Manila, the prelates have already decided to mend their own ways. Church assets will be published and clerical opulence cut. Gold crosses and chains will be replaced by plain black cloth sashes, gold rings by bronze ones. So far, the government has kept silent...
...slingshot of the neckline of his black ribbed-nylon version; Bill Blass plunges one tank top to the waist and leaves one entire shoulder off another. Children's Designer Florence Eiseman, yielding to demands by mothers who want to look as good as daughters, makes a terry-cloth tank suit that absorbs figure faults along with water...