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Brave Talk. Plans call for building 200 new plants and modernizing 500 old ones; since much of the new production will be plastics and synthetic fibers, Soviet citizens may at last find it easier to buy such simple items as nylon stockings and linoleum flooring...
Brief summaries of each decade inform the reader of newsworthy events: the Titanic sank and the tango began, nylon appeared in stockings and then disappeared into parachutes; dry ice and penicillin were invented; Sputnik went into orbit...
...Japan, the mysterious East went West as soon as the G.I.s arrived with jiipu (Jeeps) and gamu (chewing gum). Every modan garu (modern girl) is now avid for nairon sutokkingu (nylon stockings), the hittu parado (hit parade) and the popular magazines sekkuso sutori (sex stories). In showbiz, which is naturally fantazikku, starlets grapple with ojishon, kamera tesuto and doresu rihaasaru (audition, camera test, dress rehearsal). "Aimu sori," says the Japanese businessman as he breaks a kakuteiru (cocktail) date with his garufurendo (girl friend). He has time only for hassaru (hustle) and greater purodakuchibichi (productivity...
...rayon production and started a Japanese "wash-and-wear" boom. Tashiro now believes that rayon is a has-been, is turning Asia's largest producer of synthetics into newer fibers. Toyo, which has already built several plants abroad, last week was surveying the site for a new Malaysian nylon textile plant at Kuala Lumpur. "If you don't always strive toward new goals," Tashiro says at 73, "you lose vitality. That is disastrous...
...role with the sinister sweetness of a chocolate-covered cobra, and Dean Martin demonstrates impressively that he can act. But something is terribly wrong with this picture. It is cold, mechanical, dead. The central situation is contrived, and the characters are about as sincerely Southern as a bouquet of nylon magnolia blossoms. Playwright Hellman left New Orleans when she was still a child, and time has strewn cobwebs on the toys in her attic...