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...INCREDIBLE JOURNEY. Walt Disney's appealing package of holiday fauna contains a bull terrier, a Labrador retriever and a Siamese cat, all letting the fur fly on a 250-mile trek through the Canadian wilds...
...chemical industry itself, managers are still waiting for delivery of equipment designed ten years ago. Some of the products are so ungainly that they pile up unsold in warehouses -for instance, synthetic fur coats, which, complained one speaker, "are so heavy that only well-trained athletes can wear them." Only about 30% of the workers in the industry are engaged in production, while the rest are occupied with maintenance or bureaucratic tasks. Moreover, workers are underpaid and receive only a fraction of the prescribed incentive bonuses...
...visitor flew in with a flourish. His pink face and silver hair gleamed above polished cowboy boots and a grand, fur-collared overcoat. San Francisco Lawyer Melvin Mouron Belli had come to Dallas to defend Jack Ruby, the only man ever to commit a murder while the whole nation watched. Now, whether or not Judge Joe Brantley Brown decides to let live TV turn the trial into a flamboyant show, a flamboyant courtroom drama is already a certainty. "We will plead him not guilty by reason of insanity," announced Belli after a two-hour interview with his newest client...
...Women are meant to be childbearing, not fur-bearing"), once ticked off celebrated Vegetarian Bernard Shaw for "breaches of the vegetarian faith" because Shaw was taking liver-extract injections; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...complete cutaway costume also includes black and gray pin-striped trousers, a gray waistcoat, and black leather shoes. Once upon a time a beaver hat--consisting of an opera hat crowned by beaver fur--was worn with the cutaway. But now the beaver hat is rarely seen...