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...over Omaha Beach; the Nevada and three cruisers pounded nearby Utah Beach. Twelve miles offshore, thousands of infantrymen scrambled down sheets of netting into the boxlike landing craft that began chugging toward the heavily mined and barricaded shore. Aboard the flagship Augusta, General Bradley stood with ears plugged by cotton and watched through binoculars as the vanguard of the 1st and 29th Infantry Divisions waded slowly into German machine-gun fire on Omaha Beach. "The commanders who are engaged report that everything is proceeding according to plan," Churchill was to announce proudly in the House of Commons at noon that...
...with State Department officials, however, Kimche denied that Israel had any intention of selling arms to U.S. clients in the isthmus. He said that discussions had been held on expanding technological aid to the region, like Israel's ongoing program to control pests in El Salvador's cotton crop. "I do not see ourselves as proxies," he said. "I see us as an independent entity...
...name product made by Jockey, called "Jockeys for her." Jockey's ad, which was very quickly discontinued, showed fully dressed women and bore the slogan "look who's wearing Jockeys now!" While at the bottom of the ad the company stressed the value of 100% cotton...
...trade skirmish by freezing imports of Chinese textiles at the previous year's levels after talks on a new accord broke down. The People's Republic, which did not begin welcoming U.S. business on a large scale until 1979, responded by halting purchases of U.S. soybeans, cotton and synthetic fibers. Peking also refused to buy previously agreed upon quantities of U.S. grain. The cutbacks slashed American farm sales to China 73% below their 1981 level, to $544 million, and raised serious doubts in some business circles about China's reliability as a trading partner...
...always hanging out naked in my backyard." So she and her boyfriend, Austrian Designer Hans Buhringer, set out to find a solution to this two-tone torment. The result, appropriately, is called "the unsuit," available for men and women at $35 to $40 and made with a special cotton material that allows some, but not all, of the sun to shine through...