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...Churchill loves fine clothes, silk underwear, cream-colored pajamas, soft linen handerkerchiefs, grey suede gloves, chimneypot hats and lounge suits with a sly pin stripe. Bit of a dandy he is, always dashing about somewhere. A year ago it was a sea trip to Newfoundland's Placentia Bay for the Atlantic Charter signing. Then two flights to Washington. Now it was the 10,000-mile trip to Egypt and Moscow. It was a relief this week to Sawyers, Churchill's pale-lashed, nimble little valet, to be back again in No. 10 Downing Street...
...Athens (Ala.) College students now can win a year's scholarship by collecting 1,000 pairs of old silk or nylon stockings. The stockings provide reweaving material for local hosiery mills, where more than a third of the students work their way through school...
...Pallas Athene on her lapels, reviewed her charges for the first time last week. Said she: "Military tradition has given way to a pressing need and you are the first women to serve as an auxiliary force with the United States Army. Never forget it. You have taken off silk and put on khaki. And all for essentially the same reason-you have a debt and a date. A debt to democracy, a date with destiny...
Squawks. "It's not home," no news, girls ("don't stack up beside our girls"). The most judicious and fair-minded of the boys I talked to in this town, who came from St. Louis, said: "They don't have the proper things, like silk stockings. It's not the people anyway, it's the system." One boy told me with genuine incredulity: "You know what they teach kids in this country? They teach them that England won the last war! Can you beat that? It's a fact. A couple of little kids...
Kazakhstan is the terminus of an ancient (and improved) silk and spice trail which, in the authors' opinion, has been even more important to China than the Burma Road. Kazakhstan is first in the Soviet Union in copper mining, second in tin and gold, third in coal and petroleum. In the south, kok-sagyz, a rubber-yielding dandelion, is Russia's No. 2 source for rubber...