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...extraordinary precautions. The ancient Chinese were so eager to preserve the secret of silkmaking that they prescribed death by torture for revealing it to outsiders. In 1790 Samuel Slater evaded English laws against exporting textile manufacturing plans by memorizing the layout of a mill to build the first cotton-yarn factory in America...
...Jordan visited the battlefield and found it bare except for hundreds of bloating bodies, burned-out tanks and artillery pieces, and a handful of Iraqi soldiers. Reported Jordan, the only Western newsman on the scene: "The stench from the bodies was so intolerable that the Iraqis stuffed tissues or cotton into their nostrils. Among the Iranian prisoners were children, boys of twelve and 13, who wore the colors of the Revolutionary Guards. When the Iranians, who had fought their way to within eight miles of Basra, realized that they were surrounded on three sides by Iraqi forces, they reportedly broke...
Once upon a time there was probably no cotton-pickin' way to get Sammy Davis Jr., 56, onto the set of a television show like the yahoo repertory Hee Haw. But that was before the onetime freedom marcher ("I was there in Selma") was paid a backstage call by Roy Clark, 49, during a stint in Las Vegas. Next thing he knew Sammy was onstage in Nashville, with Minnie Pearl, 69. Says Davis: "I really felt welcome. We're all family." He even brought along his own wardrobe: six huge diamond rings, two diamond-and-gold bracelets...
...Americans are also distressed by the strategic planning in the Salvadoran high command. U.S. advisers stress that army troops should concentrate on making secure such vital zones as the cotton farms and cattle ranches of Usulutan, the western pasture lands and the capital itself. The Americans also insist that the army should make every effort to consolidate control of the nation's highways, where guerrillas have robbed motorists and burned some 80 vehicles in the past two weeks. Instead, the Defense Minister, General Jose Guillermo Garcia, decided to commit crack regiments to chase after guerrillas in Morazan...
...hustlers park on the two main roads just past the track, hawking hats and T-Shirts, cotton candy, corn dogs, tacos, pizza and Coke, belt buckles, water pistols, megaphones, toy cars, checkered flags, souvenir plates and shot glasses, necklaces, feathers, earrings and pennants. Almost everyone takes a piece of the race home with them...