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French garment manufacturers who export to Germany sell a higher proportion of jumbo sizes (16 to 18) there than anywhere else. In most other countries, also, well-buttressed women steer clear of such revealing clothes as stretch ski pants; in West Germany, according to the world-girdling Bogner stretch-pants concern, there is a steady demand for slipcover sizes...
Back in 1951, when the U.S. began to worry about Russian-atom armed bombers, somebody had a notion that the invaders might steer by the crisscrossing waves of U.S. commercial broadcasting stations. Probably Russian navigators were never so helpless as that, but an official system, Conelrad (for Control of Electromagnetic Radiation), was set up to foil them. Under Conelrad regulations, all regular broadcasting would go silent during an attack, while stations going on and off the air on two special frequencies, 640 and 1240 kc., would stand ready to give instructions and comfort to the quaking population...
...opening chute is eliminated by the use of a German invention, a sleeve that slowly deploys the inflating canopy instead of letting it snap open with a jerk. Open gores, or pie-shaped sections cut out of the canopy, developed by the British and Russians, permit the parachutist to steer by tugging on the wooden toggles attached to the risers. He insists that for the first five jumps the chutes be opened automatically by a static line attached to the aircraft. After that, the adventurous jumper can essay the free fall, and look forward to the day when...
...issue revived on November 26, when Dean Monro and Dr. Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of University Health Services, warned undergraduates in a letter to the CRIMSON to steer clear of the drugs on the grounds that they constitute a "serious hazard to the mental health and stability even of apparently normal persons...
...bound to pick up a bit of sophistication here and there. But I was probably sophisticated when I was five," quipped theatrical Man-for-All-Seasons Noel Coward. Wearing a green felt hat rakishly atilt, Coward flew into Sydney, Australia -out of Beirut, Bangkok and Hong Kong -to steer his musical Sail Away through its opening in Melbourne. Full sail with plans for two new musicals, two plays, a book of stories, and more of his autobiography, the playwright flatly admitted success. "Nothing has adversely affected me," said he, "except my oil paintings. They've given me an allergy...