Word: pocketing
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...Belgian billiard-ball hustlers fear that they may be snookered out of their prime market. Albany Billiard Ball Co. of Albany, N.Y., the only U.S. maker of cast-resin billiard balls, claims that it has been knocked into a side pocket by the imports. The company once dominated the U.S. market, but currently has only one-third of it. So Albany Billiard Ball is campaigning to kick up the tariff to 37½%. The U.S. Tariff Commission will decide this month whether to recommend an increase to President Nixon. The proceedings have raised alarm in Belgium. Price comparisons are extremely...
...spring of 1940, Kurt Schwitters was trudging through Norway in flight from the Nazi invasion army. He had only one suitcase of possessions, partly filled with scraps of paper. They were the raw material for collages, and he could not bear to leave them behind. In one pocket he carried a small wooden sculpture at which he whittled on his journey, and in the other a pair of white mice, one of them epileptic. He had quit Germany under Gestapo pressure in 1937, and his works had been banned-along with the products of his fellow Dadaists-as entartete Kunst...
...functionary surrenders, calls off the troops and moves out. The pocket revolution has succeeded, and now the village sinks back into its archaic life. Only one girl, Rima (Leila Schenna), cannot return to the old ways. Somehow she has responded to the clamorous century outside the village walls. In a galvanic move, she runs away into the parched land, farther, farther, until she becomes an imperceptible part...
...twin-engined Caribou swoops down from a brilliant blue sky and lands squealing on a pocket airstrip scooped out of volcanic rock or sunbaked sand. Hardly has it braked to a stop when a tall, bearded figure hops out, one hand holding his bright ima-ma, or turban, against the airstream, the other fingering the silver kunjar, or dagger, at his waist. Brown-eyed, gentle Qabus bin Said, 30, absolute monarch of Oman, has arrived on another tour of his sultanate (see color pages). Through such visits the Sultan hopes to strengthen the loyalty of local sheiks and villagers...
...shape that every young man was demanding a decade ago, but at the top theyare as baggy as an old man's-inelegant at both ends." Dallas admits, however, that perhaps the prince is consciously trying to "adjust to the day of the common man." A deliberately disarranged pocket flap may, he thinks, be a "secret signal that, from the top, elegance is seen to be undemocratic." However awful Charles' clothes are, concedes Cutter Dallas, he "usually avoids the depths" of Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home and President Richard Nixon...