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Last week the first of some 60.000 other visitors-Danes on their bikes, Hollanders in hobnailed boots, American girls in nylon dresses-were" also gorging themselves on musical goodies as long as they could stay at the table. With a swirl and a flourish down the Royal Mile, Edinburgh's third and already famed International Festival of Music and Drama was under...
Like gas-rationing and the nylon shortage, Tokyo Rose had faded fast in most people's memories. Veterans of the Pacific war remembered her, though-and so did the U.S. Government. Last week, in a rococo marble courtroom in San Francisco, the Government put California-born Tokyo Rose on trial for treason...
...Cotton. 5. Nylon...
...spared to impress thousands of foreign buyers who dropped in to see the wares. Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary appeared and smiled benignly on the bustling scene. Under fluorescent lights, on 26 miles of counter, lay samples of nearly everything Britain produces-from jewelry, and tennis rackets strung with nylon, to men's suits made of plastic fabrics and dolls that could take a swig from a milk bottle, blow bubbles and weep realistic tears. A group of British models displayed highly exportable bathing suits. Britain's Socialist government begged British businessmen to get in there and pitch...
Sheer Ecstasy. In Hollywood, William C. Shaw Jr. explained to police who arrested him why he was wearing a nylon stocking over his face: "It makes me feel so good when I take...