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Hidden Virtues. The first opaque nylon, which eliminates the "show through" of nylon cloth used for lingerie, shirts and shorts, was announced by Du Pont...
...opera was not the evening's sensation. Glancing towards the great state box, which dominates the glittering dress circle of the Bolshoi, the audience saw that it was impressively occupied. Sitting there, impassive, iron-mouthed, unsmiling, were the supreme leaders of the Soviet Union, some in the dark cloth of civilian office, others brilliantly bemedaled...
...other distinguished guests, the Bishop of Grahamstown tried to perform the Anglican marriage ceremony. But a gaggle of more than 70 camera-bearing whites crowded the honored guests off their chairs, knocked over the Communion wine, tore the altar backcloth, left empty Coca-Cola bottles on the altar-cloth. Above the altar, someone raised a huge billboard exhorting all present to smoke Commando cigarettes...
JAPAN has passed Great Britain and regained its prewar place as the world's No. 1 exporter of cotton cloth. In 1953's first three months, while Britain's exports dropped from 185 million to 173 million sq. yds., Japan's soared from 146 million to 187 million sq. yds., including a 100% increase in sales in Britain itself...
CALL ME LUCKY (344 pp.)-Bing Crosby (as told to Pete Martin)-Simon & Schuster (cloth bound, $3.50; paper bound...