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...cotton shirts and blue pants that they had worn across the border and plunged into their first hot baths since they were imprisoned. While soaping, they asked for, and promptly got, Scotch and sodas. Then they put on new civvies, and marveled at the slacks made of Dacron, a cloth they had never seen before. They began to ask questions. Had they been promoted? What were the 1955 cars like? Within three hours from the time they splashed across the bridge, the four were aboard The Bataan (once General Douglas MacArthur's personal C-54 transport), on their...
...forest around the camp. Nonetheless, I succeeded in carrying out my mission as a priest-secretly. A Hungarian turner who was Catholic found a tiny aluminum cylinder, and out of it made a chalice so small that I could hide it in my closed fist. From a piece of cloth, I made a purificator and the other holy cloths, all tiny...
...hard for Communist good will that they recently sold the valuable Charbonnages du Tonkin coal mines to the Communists for the mere promise of 1,000,000 tons of coal- to be mined and delivered later on. Sainteny is talking with the Communists about electrical and rail equipment, cloth, cars, drugs and food; he advocates an economic buildup for the new Communist state, in token of what he calls "a shining example of coexistence...
...then reporters realized that if real people instead of mannequins had inhabited the village, only a few would have survived. Inside the standing houses, Venetian blinds had been tossed around like bundles of spears, furniture hurled in grotesque stacks, cloth torn and seared. A refrig erator had exploded from the change in air pressure. Two of three steel industrial buildings were ruined. A doorknob had been torn from a door and cast half through a wall, so that there was a doorknob where there was no door. Each of two typical American houses, one brick, one wood, was a pile...
Comfortable & Colorful. In 1955, more than ever before, U.S. summer clothes are gay and casual. There are Orlon sweaters, dresses in Dacron, nylon and other wonder fabrics in every color. There are dresses of wispy silk and tough denims, terry-cloth shirts, and shorts in everything from calfskin to velvet. Toreador pants, once worn only by the brave (and beautiful), are as common as pedal-pushers and Levi's. One big 1955 craze: sweater-like cotton knits in everything from beach robes to low-priced cocktail dresses...