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...Department: a plastic artificial eye which, besides being unbreakable, has been found by the Army to be superior in many ways to the best custom-made glass eyes. Carefully made to duplicate a patient's natural eye shape and coloring, the plastic eye is lighter than glass, fits better, can be moved by the eye muscles, costs less than $5 (against $300 for a custom-made glass...
...exchange professorship from Winona State Teachers College in Minnesota. For 16 months he and his wife, Mavis, gathered facts and polled opinion, crisscross and endways. When Dr. Biesanz went into the Army, Mrs. Biesanz finished his report. Costa Rican Life (Columbia University Press; $3), published this month, is a lighter-reading, 272-page Middletown of Central America's cleanest, happiest country. Some findings...
...Shape. In Lahore, India, a comedian named Durga Mota, 80 lbs. lighter since rationing began, pleaded from a hospital bed for more food, swore he needed 2 lbs. of flour, 60 cups of tea daily to get back to his customary...
...average Jap soldier (5 ft. 3 in., 117½lbs.), is five inches shorter, some 28 lbs. lighter than the average G.I. Nevertheless he can lift a 150-lb. weight to his back without spreading his legs; a Jap battalion can march more than 20 miles a day; special patrols have been known to cover 60 miles on foot between midnight and the next afternoon...
Presents for men were more mundane, but it was possible to buy a $150 cigaret lighter or a $25 necktie...