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...fact, furriers are using everything short of their own hides - Russian fitch, French rabbit, Algerian sand rat, Polish pony, Australian kangaroo and Wyoming buffalo. And they are handling the animal skins like fabric, tailoring them into haute couture shapes, cutting them into culottes, evening gowns and leggings. Taking even greater lib erties, the furriers are dyeing skins col ors nature never dreamed of, and in patterns taken right off the walls of an Op-Pop gallery. The fun furs are for secretaries who want the feel of fur without the financial pinch of mink and for two-mink socialites...
...Bella, that he doubts his own popularsupport. In any case, there was a touch of urgency about the new policy that suggested serious concern. Failure to turn in military weapons by Sept. 1, warned Radio Havana, would be punished not by criminal courts but bythe dreaded Revolutionary Tribunals - those kangaroo courts that havealready sentenced to death at least 1,100 Cubans since Castro took over...
...establishing Russian influence in Southeast Asia, but with the intensification of the war, Russia has lost much of its enthusiasm. Peking is still the big spender, having provided $650 million in economic aid. Though Ho at first responded to the Chinese largesse by mimicking Mao with Orwellian hate campaigns, kangaroo courts and rapid, brutal collectivization, he has also tried to remain aloof from the Moscow-Peking ideological quarrel. Essentially, it is in the North Vietnamese interest to work both sides of the street. And basically it is in Washington's interest to keep Ho astraddle, while at the same...
...kangaroo court," cries one side. "It's a psychological deterrent against police brutality," says the other...
...decision not only affects the three major lines, but dashes the hopes of applicants for subsidized routes in 39 other cities. "Kangaroo-court action," cried Clarence M. Belinn, president of Los Angeles Airways; he and other helicopter men still hope for a reprieve from Congress. Said Stuart G. Tipton, president of the Air Transport Association: "If given the proper climate of encouragement, the helicopter airlines could well expand into one of the nation's important industries, employing tens of thousands of people and requiring hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment and facilities...