Word: nightshirters
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...habit Egyptians cannot kick is the galabiya, the loose, ankle-length cotton garment that looks like a nightshirt and acts as an air conditioner of sorts in Egypt's sweltering heat. Fellah (peasant) and townsman alike have worn the flowing gown since the days of the pharaohs, and no amount of cajoling by Nasser's Ministry of Culture and National Guidance has been able to convince Egyptians that they should switch to that restricting jacket-shirt-and-pants that those strange, perspiring foreigners seem to prefer...
...Royal Suite of Los Angeles' venerable Ambassador Hotel, a man clad only in dark-rimmed glasses and a long white nightshirt with red polka dots sat watching television. On the screen, Richard Dix was battling his way against great odds through a 1941 horse opera called The Round-Up. After many a cliffhanging episode, the Good Guys vanquished the Bad Guys, and the Grand Old West once again was made fit for Decent Folks...
...unchanged, and bent nails and half-shoelaces are traded with solemnity and diligence. The red flowerpot of the tarboosh has all but vanished from Cairenes' heads, and Nasser has even made considerable progress in his campaign to get his city folk to switch to European clothes from the nightshirt-like galabiya. Most astonishing is the fact that a visitor seldom sees a barefoot man, woman or child. Even urchins from the Cairo slums wear shoes-and socks. Today Cairo walks well-dressed, well-shod and bareheaded, with its shoulders back...
...woodcuts, a boy in a flowered nightshirt with his curious but faithful dog beside him stares in wonder at a baroque blue moon; in another a very simply represented little girl sits with an alert-looking cat in a high-back chair, tilts her head ever so slightly; and glances mischievously at the viewer. Wildly fanciful creatures, some with extra pairs of legs, romp nonchalantly through several more. In short, the artist has done many woodcuts but each is the very distinctive creation of an apparently inexhaustable imagination...
Dispensing with a nightshirt or sheet, the El Paso team insists that the patient's skin must lie directly on the cropped wool. Even in hot weather, this helps to keep the patient cool by letting air circulate. The sheepskin can be washed repeatedly, provided it is well rinsed. "It is remarkable," say Drs. Breck and Gonzalez, "that the method has not been adopted widely throughout the country...