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...Oxford clubs the social function, though present, is a subordinate one. The Conservative Association, for example, with one eighth of Oxford's 8,800 undergraduates in its membership, is the very model of an active political party, complete with inner groupings known as the Carlton and Blue Ribbon Clubs--both junior versions of the London Carlton Club and Bow Group respectively, and both dedicated to the political education of their members. The famous Oxford Union, the famous Oxford Union, the closest thing at Oxford to the Hasty Pudding, is a model parties represented; a vote is taken after a four...
...topping almost every plastic mannequin in department-store windows across the country, bowlers are being sold to real-life women at a furious rate. Most popular in straw, they come in every possible fabric from linen to leopard, can be made to look entirely new by a switch in ribbon color or the substitution of feather for flower. They are firm enough to hold their own high shape, are better even than the bouffant hairdo; nothing, neither wind nor compact car, is likely to flatten them or leave them bedraggled...
...steel is poured into the mold, it solidifies and inches downward, emerging as a glowing sheet of steel at the bottom of the mold, where it is cooled further and chopped into slabs for convenient handling. Meanwhile, molten steel is steadily added from above so that a continuous ribbon of steel is produced. The continuous casting process can be almost completely automated, produces a uniform grade of steel, and in German plants has saved as much as $10 a ton in production costs of regular carbon steel. Though a handful of other U.S. steelmakers had already begun experimenting with continuous...
...Actually," she tells her audience, "I'm here on missionary work for the Tax Department." She wears, at times, a skintight gown with a huge rose of ribbon on her derriere. She runs her hands down her sides. "It's about the size of one leg of Jackie Gleason's trousers," she confides. Then she's off into song, with an impression thrown in-of Elizabeth Taylor, for example, singing I Cain...
...blindfold checked. Then Rosa opened a book at random, passed the fingertips of her right hand lightly over the page, and fluently read the text aloud. She did the same with a newspaper. Handed a snapshot, Rosa stroked the surface and said: "What a cute little girl with a ribbon in her hair and her face tilted upward...