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Lest anyone have any doubts that her East-West blend can stand comparison with Hollywood's well-known brands, company flacks have already hastened to announce that under her high-buttoned cheongsam (the Chinese sheath with the slit skirt), she is the equal of any Occidental. But Nancy promptly corrected the claim that she has "the ample bosom of the Nordics." Said she demurely: "It is big for the Chinese, enough for the English, maybe small for Italians...
...call "wearability" (sensible clothes that fit in pretty well with any style or season) and "packability" (fresh emphasis on lightweight and non-crush, drip-dry convenience fabrics). There was a smart swing to dresses made from printed scarf material, dresses with matching jackets, and two-layer "tunics," i.e., a sheath ending above the knee, with a longer sheath of matching or different color underneath. There was a slim look in hats, a chunky look in jewelry and a gentle look in the spring colors-notably beige, bone and white...
...metal pins and skin grafts from his abdomen, has slowly knitted together during the past four months. He still has no feeling or movement in the limb. Not for another few months will the surgeons undertake thg. tricky task of reopening the leg to sew together the finger-thick sheath of the sciatic (spinal) nerve. They are going on surgeons' experience that nerves mend better when they are connected several months after an accident, figure that Smith will start walking again-although with a severe limp-within a year...
...save the trapped game and reptiles, the Southern Rhodesian government assigned a total force of three white game wardens and eight native trackers, who are working from dawn to dusk. Wearing bathing trunks and frogman flippers, armed with sheath knives to protect themselves from crocodiles, they grapple in the water with the terrified wildlife. A baboon weakened by hunger and privation can easily be captured by hand. Monkeys are more difficult, especially the vervets, who can swim underwater for as long as two minutes. The technique of capture is the same for both-one hand grabs the tail, the other...
Under the spotlight, her thin, sharp face had the moody glower of an unsuccessful manicurist. Her lank, hemp-colored hair splashed in uncombed confusion above her black velvet sheath. But weird as she looked, slack-mouthed, hazel-eyed Singer Tammy Grimes sounded wonderful-no mean accomplishment in the cramped quarters of Julius Monk's Downstairs at the Upstairs, a crowded Manhattan nightclub where the man who moves may catch his neighbor's elbow in his ear or his companion's highball...