Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, strolling to a political meeting beside Britain's River Crouch, saw a little girl fall from a jetty. He ripped off his Savile Row jacket and plunged in after her. But a dinghy got there first. Sir Hartley rose from the waters, a study in frustration and soggy drawers. He addressed the meeting in borrowed pants and an old sweater, to which hecklers were especially attentive...
Last week, Carol summoned friends to his Copacabana suite (in which the Windsors had once stayed). He talked with them nervously, then he led them into the bedroom. Magda wore a white satin bed-jacket. She was dying, the doctors said. In the presence of the six witnesses, ex-King Carol married Magda Lupescu.* She assumed the title of Princess Elena of Rumania, the same name that Carol's bitter, blonde wife had once borne. Reporters said that the ex-King cried during the ceremony, but this was later denied...
...wraps became a strait jacket. The small British cars could not compete in the foreign market. If manufacturers wanted to sell abroad, they had to make bigger export models, an expensive process. So production remained small, prices high, and there was little standardization...
Last week Britons decided that if autos were to pull their weight in the export program, the strait jacket had to go. So, beginning next Jan. 1, there will be a flat annual tax of ?10 ($40) on all new autos, regardless of horsepower...
Just before 8:30 one morning last week, an olive drab Cadillac rolled down the ramp to the underground parking lot of the Pentagon Building. Its passenger, cap set ever so slightly at a rake, stepped out, pulled down his trim, suntan Eisenhower jacket and strode toward the elevator. Pentagon workers did not need to glance at the five-star circlets on his shoulder straps to know who he was. They gave him "good morning." General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower grinned his acknowledgments, got into the elevator, was soon in his third-floor office and busy...