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...regent; No. 3 was a comely Ethiopian, black as the tents of Kedar, onetime maidservant to Umm Naif. The black queen attended to Abdullah's clothes, prepared his favorite meals of tender lamb, rice and raisins. A trim figure with a passion for green clothes and nylon stockings, she is, despite her heavy veil, often recognized in Amman's streets. An Amman urchin once jeered "Nylon" at her, after which it became a crime punishable by jail sentence to shout the word nylon publicly in Amman...
...hardest hit was the textile industry, whose sales have been "slow to lousv" for four months. Textron, Inc., whose rayon weaving mill in Suncook, N.H. closed down for vacations at the end of June, decided to postpone reopening of the plant indefinitely; its nylon weaving plants closed down for two vacation weeks instead of the normal...
SMALL WEAPONS: Production of the new 3.5-in. bazooka is so high that cutbacks have been ordered. Tied in with the airborne's effort to lighten all equipment, several new items have been developed. Among them: a new entrenching tool, four pounds lighter than the old; an aluminum-nylon helmet, 8% lighter; new tropical combat boots, 3/4 Ib. lighter. Also due to be lightened: rifles, pistols, machine guns and ammunition...
...small Japanese cargo ships in the harbor of the tiny island of Anatahan, 61 miles north of Saipan. Thirty-three Japanese soldiers and sailors scrambled ashore and set up camp on the island. The men lived on lizards, mangoes, bananas and coconuts, made clothes for themselves out of parachute nylon salvaged from the wreckage...
...retailers, who had watched nylon work a revolution in the hosiery market, were in the midst of another Du Pont revolution last week. On sale were men's shirts and women's blouses of Dacron, a synthetic which may do the same thing to wool that nylon did to silk. In the next few weeks, men's suits of Dacron will be sold all over the country...