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...massed band, from whose front line of trumpeters fluttered scarlet banners and golden tassels, struck up a martial air. Rain had canceled the air flypast, and Party Secretary Khrushchev, clad in a fawn raincoat and bright green hat, had stolen some of the show by escorting attractive Ekaterina Furtseva, a Moscow party official, to the podium. But now, after the trumpets, Zhukov, with all the pomp and ceremony which the occasion demanded, went to center stage to deliver the official speech...
...Dunlop, Sir Eric and Sir George swung the ax ruthlessly, began to diversify. They bought more wheel and rim plants, started making all kinds of rubber goods, from flooring to hot water bottles, and took over Charles Macintosh & Co., of raincoat fame. In 1928 Sir George hired his son, George Beharrell. who rose to a directorship...
Penalty Tour. In Toronto, Canadian Air Force Veteran William Bagler was given 21 days in jail after he took out his spite against his wife by dressing her in pajamas and an R.C.A.F. raincoat, putting a knapsack full of bricks on her back, making her march a pack drill in the basement of their home...
...Castries calling Dienbienphu. Is that you, darling?" In the fortress command post 175 miles away, Colonel de Castries came to the set. Asked Mme. de Castries: "Are you all right, Christian?" Said the colonel: "Never better." Mme. de Castries warned of the coming monsoon: "I hope your raincoat has not been destroyed." The colonel later messaged his wife for razor blades and shaving cream. "He is extremely confident," Mme. de Castries told a London Daily Express reporter. "I know he'll be safe...
When he asked the Democratic National Committee for financial support, Williams was turned down. Party leaders said they did not care to invest in a lost cause. With only about $3,000 to spend, Candidate Williams plodded around the district in a faded raincoat and a battered, narrow-brim hat. He knew that Republican Representative Clifford Case, who had resigned . to take a Ford Foundation job, was highly popular. So he promised to follow in Case's voting footsteps: e.g., he promised wholehearted support of the Eisenhower foreign policy. Williams' Republican opponent was another Plainfield lawyer, George Hetfield...