Word: pearling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Needed Intellect. Though India-like the U.S. after Pearl Harbor-could not yet afford scapegoats and recrimination, Defense Minister Krishna Menon was almost universally blamed for the inadequacy of Indian arms, the lack of equipment and even winter clothing. His fall from grace not only finished his own career but brought a turning point in Nehru's. The Prime Minister had tried to pacify critics by taking over the Defense Ministry and downgrading Menon to Minister of Defense Production, but Nehru's own supporters demanded Menon's complete dismissal...
...there are still traces of this pearl of a culture: Yalies who won't listen to Gus Hall, Yalies who will parody the CRIMSON. But, alas, these are but traces. For sometime last Spring a special committee of Yale faculty members (none of them, obviously, Yale men) recommended that its Almost Mother begin admitting women...
Alfred couldn't explain the award. The Swedish Academy, he added, has been very inconsistent in making the award, passing up Leo Tolstoy, but once selecting Pearl Buck...
...Other U.S. winners: Sinclair Lewis. Eugene O'Neill, Pearl Buck, T. S. Eliot (a British citizen), William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway...
...about camel hair for this fall. They're showing full fashioned camel hair sweaters with saddle shoulders from England, including a V-neck pullover at $24.50 and a cardigan for $29.50. Sak's also features the 100 per cent camel hair wool blazer. This natural shoulder model with three pearl buttons and flap pockets sells for $69.50. Topping off a three piece camel ensemble is a handsome cotton or heek suede outerwear jacket with up sleeves and a full sherpa lining. The shawl collar, raglan shoulder, slash pockets, and leather buttons light this imported jacket from mark. It comes...