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...Outdoor furniture (it outwears rattan), cane seats for subways, trolleys and busses...
Fiercest, most aloof of the mountain tribesmen are the tree-dwelling Ibilaos (pronounced Ee-beh-lah'-os), who run across the roof of the jungle on rattan vines like tightrope walkers. They have two chief occupations: 1) raising rice in small clearings of the jungle; 2) hunting heads. Not so prevalent as in the past, head-hunting is still a sport and a ritual among some savage Luzon tribes, where a young buck often cannot qualify for marriage until he has snicked off an enemy head. Head-hunting was one of the things the officials in Pantabangan (Nueva Ecija...
...creation: Tenite II-a slightly refined Tenite I extruded in long, thin, narrow strips and strings. On display were Tennessee Eastman's debutantes: plastic chairs, tables, love seats, lazy boys of Tenite II for use in sun rooms, on verandas and lawns. Woven in strips or strings on rattan frames, the plastic furniture is (Eastman boast) impervious to sun, rain, fading. It is made by Ypsilanti Reed Furniture Co. out of strips and strings extruded by Detroit Macoid Corp. from Tennessee Eastman's Tenite II. Tentatively priced from $17 for a small chair to $50 for a section...
Lord Lothian held a press conference the second day after his arrival. Embassy attendants goggled as he sat nonchalantly in a rattan chair on the portico beside the wide formal garden behind the Chancellery, answering reporters' questions directly if he could, with disarming evasions if he could...
Many thanks for your ad in TIME, May 2 for St. Petersburg's most remarkable rattan chairs, where it takes longer to die in these chairs and on our world-famous green benches than any others on earth. Many who came here to die-within 90 days-40 years ago are still waiting but not hoping. Your pappy, Father Time, is here but you wouldn't know him. Last seen he was chasing a bevy of our beach beauties-and not with a sickle. . . . Time marches on-in St. Petersburg-with a firm, sturdy and steady step...