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WOMEN'S stocking makers are engaged in fierce competition to get sheerer and sheerer hose on the market. Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman cut one line of 66-gauge, 12-denier nylon hose from $2.50 to $1.15 because the manufacturer had been forced out of business. With a new knitting machine to make super-sheer, 72-gauge, 10-denier hose now on the market, many hosiery makers may have to scrap their almost new 51-and 60-gauge machines...
...suite occupied by seniors Robert O. Angle, David B. MacFarland, and Thomas M. Wallace. Michael Levinson '55, the occupant of a nearby room, and Henry Rogers, a Yard policeman, reported the outbreak to Cambridge firemen. The first engines arrived on the scene about 9:15 p.m. and set up hose lines from nearby Memorial Drive to the fourth floor suite. A large crowd of onlookers soon gathered...
Undercover Agent. In Dallas, a woman who was arrested after a department-store floorwalker saw her slip two articles under her dress was unburdened of: a sack of candy, two billfolds, a raincoat, a boy's shirt, two brassieres, five pairs of ladies' hose, a jar of deodorant, a tube of toothpaste, two pints of paint, two flower bulbs, four packages of flower and vegetable seeds, three packages of buckshot...
...interest-exactly five shares of common stock-in Jasco, Inc., a World War II prize confiscated from Germany's I. G. Farbenindustries. Jasco owns the basic patents on just about every process used in synthetic rubber, from butadiene for tires to butyl for tubes, Oppanol for insulation hose...
Inevitably, little Norbert turned out to be something of an infantile monster. Once, when a Latin tutor annoyed him, he turned the garden hose on the fellow. Another time, when his parents sent him to a Unitarian Sunday school to give him some contact with other children, little Atheist Norbert got into debates with the minister on the existence...