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...brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi's, grinned proudly. "The boys are doing fine, just fine-they're going to make real fine cowboys," he said...
...weekend last February, 75 companies and Government agencies set up recruiting booths in the Civic Auditorium. Among those represented: Metropolitan Life, Safeway Stores, General Electric, IBM, Bank of America, Trans World Airlines, Levi Strauss. To draw a large crowd, sound trucks blared the news of the fair through neighborhoods heavily populated by Negroes, and clergymen spread the word from pulpits. In all 10,000 people showed up looking for jobs. They met with company recruiters, some of them Negroes, who explained each company's requirements and opportunities...
...Your visit is unique," said Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol in the understatement of this or many another year. West Germany's former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 90, stood in Jerusalem with his old friend ex-Premier David Ben-Gurion, 79, and declared: "Your hearty welcome has assured me that my visit here will be unforgettable." There were moments during the eight-day trip that he might just as soon forget, such as an ugly fracas at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, where police tangled with anti-German demonstrators. Otherwise, the Israelis were warm to der Alte, a staunch...
With that Pauling added the National Review to the list of publications he was suing, and demanded $1,000,000. The case had hardly come to trial last month in New York State Supreme Court when it bogged down. While jurors nodded, Pauling's attorney, Michael Levi Matar, plodded laboriously from one niggling point to the next. He kept Mrs. Pauling on the stand for hours while he led her through long explanations of awards garnered by her husband. He questioned Pauling himself about his beliefs and actions at interminable length. Justice Samuel J. Silverman was visibly irritated...
Main resistance at first came from housewives, disillusioned by earlier wash-and-wear claims that fell flat. But as word-of-mouth recommendations spread, sales soared across the country. Says Levi Strauss & Co. President Walter Haas Jr., who is selling products on an allotment basis: "The demand is be yond our capacity." Arrow, Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts have converted the majority of their line. On U.S. campuses, undergraduates who proudly used to wear their chinos wrinkled from the local Laundromat are now coming to class well creased. Says one Midwestern college administrator with satisfaction: "Now they...