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...striker, shagged them. Later in the week, Dwight Eisenhower (who has trouble sleeping if he goes very long without exercise) was able to take his first afternoon off for 18 holes of golf with Omar Bradley, Washington Banker Robert V. Fleming and Colonel Thomas Belshe, an old friend, at swank Burning Tree Club. Ike's score: "in the low 90s," a poor showing for a golfer who shoots in the low 80s when he is on his game...
...Jasmine was queen of the minks, mink was still king of the furs. In swank shops across the nation, fur departments were jammed with last-minute Christmas shoppers. Some bought bleached otter; others snapped up dyed beaver, nutria or sable. But for most, the goal was a mink. Mink outsells all other furs (world production is about 3,250,000 pelts a year), accounts for an estimated 65% of the dollar volume in the fur business...
Commuting by Yacht. The biggest and flashiest trailer parks are in California, where 300,000 people live in 4,000 parks. In Palm Springs's swank Rancho Trailer Park (284 spaces), the current gag is: "You can tell a poor trailer owner because he washes his Cadillac himself." Near Balboa, overlooking the Pacific, is the 230-space Lido Trailer Park, a sort of Palm Beach on wheels. There trailer spaces rent for as much as $100 a month, and trailerites moor their yachts in slips along the front of the park. Many have two trailers, one to live...
...tons of oil at bargain prices. But: no tankers to deliver the goods. Shipowners were chary of the stern British threat to sue any owner who loaded Iranian oil. Sedika moved on to Rome, set up two corporations, and started looking for men with tankers. At Rome's swank Excelsior Hotel, Mme. Garagozlou explained: "I am the-how do you call it-front man. I make the contacts...
...installation is the biggest air-conditioning system in the world), kept food cold for the armed forces, simulated the low temperatures of high altitudes in wind tunnels. Once, on a hurry-up job for two synthetic rubber plants, Wampler yanked out the air-conditioning system in Manhattan's swank Tiffany & Co. jewelry store and shipped it to Oklahoma and Texas. To save space, Carrier devised a system which eliminated large cooling ducts. Instead, it compressed the air and shot it through small pipes...