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...William James Erwin, 52, vice president and general manager of South Carolina's Riegel Textile Corp., was named president of Dan River Mills, headless since President Russell Newton was ousted last October in a company shakeup. Erwin started as a textile engineer with Virginia's Consolidated Mills in 1921, switched to South Carolina's Republic Cotton Mills in 1934, to J. P. Stevens...
...long can it last? The jails are already full. How long will it be before the Negroes cease to care about whippings and beatings and killings? How long before they decide to slit every white throat in the Union, headless of the risks...
...peculiarity of style revealed by the X-ray pictures: Caravaggio never bothered sketching in his figures before painting them; he worked directly with oils. The presence in the early versions of a few headless ears indicates that Caravaggio probably started with an ear when painting heads, using it as a guide in developing the proportions of the rest of the body...
Jomo for Jesus. Reinforced with regular troops, Sir Evelyn Baring, Kenya's newly appointed governor, felt strong enough to hit back at the Mau Mau (the Lancashire Fusiliers, noting the Mau Mau habit of nailing headless cats to their victims' doors, christened the terrorists Meow-Meows). Armored cars roared out along the main highways, spotter planes swooped low over the Kiyuyu reserve. Covered by the Fusiliers, Kenya cops grabbed hundreds of suspected terrorists in Nairobi's native quarter, pounced on scores of others lurking in forest hideouts...
...Army ordinance reports frontline troops are wearing light but fantastically strong vests which are reported to be almost bulletproof.Frederick Gooding Jr., Charles E. Zeltin, and Robert T. Root. Models: Lois L. Ebelling '54, Betsy Ross '55, Rence Micheison '53, Mary Anne Goldsmith '55.Vests are both popular and practical. The headless gentleman in the picture wears his vest for Vanity's sake, but vest pockets are imminently useful for holding pencils, tickets, combs, thumbs and small flasks. Fat men and chilly men find vests vital to their wardrobes...