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...last week NATO South command listed 692 U.S. officers and men, who were provided "logistic support" (carbon paper, groceries, Kleenex, cigarettes, household appliances, etc., etc.) by 2,103 military and 534 civilian aides in town, supporting a resounding total of 3,166 wives and children. What do they all do? Explained one Navyman: "All those people take in each other's washing...
...N.A.M. Chief Cola G. Parker, 65, retired president and board chairman of papermakers Kimberly-Clark (Kleenex) is Wisconsin-born, Indiana-reared. He first made good as a New York corporation lawyer; at 47 he went back to Wisconsin to make good all over again as an industrialist. He joined Kimberly-Clark of Neenah, Wis. in 1937 as financial vice president, became its president in 1942. chairman in 1953, and quadrupled the corporation's sales. Parker served the Eisenhower Administration as a member of the Commission on Foreign Economic Policy and as adviser to the U.S. delegation at the GATT...
...entire program this year and a former volunteer at Children's emphasizes the importance of the worker's adjustment of the perspectives of a stricken child. "Last year, just when I was getting ready to leave one afternoon, a little girl asked me to hand her a box of Kleenex which, she said without pointing, was 'over there'". As it happened, "Over there" for the nine-year old who couldn't move her arms, meant a bedstand less than six inches from her fingers...
Tourist Snapshots. One of Gunther's chief qualities is his tourist's knack for relating the far-off to the familiar. Thus, the muffled women of Tangier are like "wads of Kleenex," while some native chiefs remind him of Chicago ward heelers. Often he exaggerates and occasionally he is downright naive, but when it comes to picturesque details, Reporter Gunther has them all. "Giraffes," he reports from East Africa, "intertwine their necks when making love." And he is equally informative on human marriage customs...
Young at Heart (Warner), a remake of Fannie Hurst's Four Daughters (1938), is intended as a tearjerker but rates only one piece of Kleenex...