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...Conformity and conformism are old and deeply ingrained characteristics of American Society," he said as he poured the loose pipe tobacco from a cellophane bag into his plastic tobacco pouch. "That's one thing that's not so obvious when you're in college as later...
...Pouch. As soon as news of the fire reached London, the Royal Ballet's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn sent her own Black Swan costume winging to Ballet Theatre's Prima Ballerina Nora Kaye. Covent Garden set 15 girls apressing a pile of old Sylphides costumes. The British Festival Ballet's Anton Dolin, a Ballet Theatre alumnus, sent whatever odds and ends he could spare. Ballet Theatre's Erik Bruhn phoned fellow Danes in Copenhagen, who rushed to pack Sylphides and Graduation Ball trappings (the vacationing director had to be run to ground for an O.K.). French...
...white shirts for the men. Upon his arrival in Brussels, well-heeled Director Lucia Chase and company members cut off the incongruous pockets. The U.S. embassy in London scissored red tape to arrange immediate funds for air-freighting costumes, put the Rambert Giselle score in a Brussels-bound diplomatic pouch. In Brussels itself, one especially vital consignment arrived at the airport with such urgency that suspicious customs men detained the package. A Ballet Theatre official warned hoarsely: "If we don't get those athletic supporters soon, I'm going to call the American ambassador...
Among the world's major airlines, one of the fastest growing is a line whose apt symbol is a flying kangaroo and whose long hops take it from Australia clear round the world. In barely ten years, Australia's Qantas* has grown from a pouch baby into the world's ninth biggest international carrier, traveling some 15 million miles annually with 167,350 passengers. Last week Qantas was poised for still another leap. To Lockheed Aircraft went orders and options for six big Electra turboprop transports costing $15 million, 75% of which will be financed...
...both malignant and benign, from dogs and cats. A Florida vet has removed worms from a dog's pulmonary artery with the animal under hypothermia. A dog has no appendix, so is spared the need for an appendectomy, but he has a human-type caecum (a dead-end pouch at a turn in the intestines), which is the favorite hideaway of the whipworm. Vermifuges often cannot reach the worms there, so most vet surgeons do a caecectomy...