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...trim little woman of 52, in a neat linen dress and high-heeled shoes, clip-clopped across a marble floor in Havana's Comodoro Yacht Club last week and faced a combined audience of Cuban doctors and members of the cruising Pan American Medical Association.- Dr. Jose...
...dress cloth went over that, a long skirt reaching to the floor. Then an overskirt over that, that reached the floor and was tucked up on the sides and the top. Long stockings, black, and high-buttoned shoes . . . Then I had a stiff high collar and white linen cuffs. My dress was all braided in the front, and the long jacket I wore, that was also braided. We bought the braid in patterns. My gloves were tan-colored, doe skin, they called them. And then, the ring...
...island governor, Sir Hugh Foot, next day made by Elizabeth a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. After three days, embarking for the Panama Canal Zone on the 15,902-ton liner Gothic, the Queen was startled when a dusky Jamaican, impetuously turned Raleigh, tossed his linen jacket at her feet. Ignoring the incident, the Queen walked on. This week, after landing at Cristobal, Elizabeth and Philip spent a busy day inspecting the canal and attending a state dinner given by Panama's President Jose Antonio Remon. Early next morning the Gothic headed westward across the Pacific, bound...
...will catch up to the 1951 output of France by 1955, and to that of Britain by 1962. This does not mean that Soviet living standards, in one decade, could possibly catch up with Western Europe's, for European kitchens and wardrobes are crammed with "capital goods" - cutlery, linen, clothing - that have taken years to accumulate...
Malenkov left his lieutenants to spell out the damage in detail. In an orgy of breast beating, they reported: ¶ Stockings, underwear, hats and footwear-"completely inadequate." ¶ Textiles of all sorts-"insufficient . . . badly dyed, with flaws." ¶Furniture-"unsatisfactory." ¶ Women's dresses-"poor." ¶Bed linen-"production is lower than...