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Expert Witness. In Los Angeles, when a holdup man handcuffed Tailor Manuel Hassel and walked off with three pairs of trousers, three pairs of socks and $60 in cash, Hassel refused to panic, later supplied police with the bandit's weight, coat size, waist measurement, shoe and sock sizes...
Meredith was a tailor's son, born in 1828. No biographer can tell much about his early years, for he covered those years with "an impenetrable cloak of silence...
...most modern state in a generation and through the efforts of one man. Kemal Ataturk, a rough, hard-drinking neurotic who combined traces of Lincoln's vision and Stalin's ruthlessness, established the Turkish Republic, ran it like a dictatorship, topped it off with a tailor-made opposition. Modern Turkey, striving to be even more modern, still needs capital, roads, teachers, more private enterprise...
Defense Secretary Charles Wilson won his battle in Congress to cut $5 billion out of the Air Force budget for 1954, but in so doing he freely promised that the cut would not damage the combat effectiveness of the Air Force. Last week, attempting dutifully to tailor its cuts to fit the budget, the Air Force gave a fateful answer to Charlie Wilson's promise...
...once remarked to a diplomat, "fits Germans the way a saddle fits a cow." The job required an agent as cold and slippery as a block of ice, an unregenerate Dr. Faustus, to whom all East Germany would be a Margarete. Walter Ulbricht was ready. For 25 years the tailor's son from Leipzig had pursued the dark alchemy of Communist intrigue in preparation for the call...