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...unavoidable, given all the styles currently available. Like cars, white shirts come with an array of customizing options, including button, snap or cutaway Windsor collars, as well as dobby weaves, textured herringbones and jacquards. Among the latest variations are snowy shirts with thin, widely spaced purple or teal stripes. Says Barbara Kirk, a men's-furnishings buyer for the Seattle-based Nordstom stores: "A plain white shirt isn't just a plain white shirt anymore." Nor is it cheap: at Wilkes Bashford, the price can reach $235 for a French-cuff Charvet shirt, made of Sea Island cotton and imported...
INFRARED SENSORS. Several satellites, including an advanced craft called Teal Ruby that is being prepared for launch, have detectors that are sensitive to the infrared frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum. These sensors can determine the size and shape of Soviet test warheads from the radiation they emit as they streak through the atmosphere. Pictures taken with film sensitive to infrared emissions are especially useful for spotting missiles or launch vehicles that have been camouflaged on the ground to look like vegetation...
...Rockefeller Wildlife Refuge near Grand Chenier. The drive there is through marsh country, with egrets and heron everywhere and a duck-hunting dog in every man's yard. The canals are thick with lily pads and anglers, and the talk is of the upcoming opening of teal season. (During the Iranian crisis, it was locally claimed that ten Cajuns could have saved the day if you put them in the desert and told them 1) Iranians were out of season, 2) there was a two-bag limit and 3) they taste good in gumbo...
...hunters themselves have a more evocative term-they call it "maple leafing," a lovely image. To boot, the very names of the birds roll off the tongue like a song: pintails, canvasbacks, eiders and green-headed mallards, snow geese, marsh wrens, white-winged scoters and cinnamon teal...
Both descriptions are accurate. Stretching nearly 200 miles from its northern end at the Susquehanna flats to its southern end at the Virginia capes, only 30 miles wide at its broadest point, the Chesapeake has long been a source of almost overwhelming natural abundance. Geese, black ducks, mallard, teal and widgeon have darkened the skies over the bay and fattened themselves in its marshes. Striped bass, shad and herring spawn in its shallow bays. Oysters, clams and the succulent Atlantic blue crab provide the bay's hardy watermen with a livelihood and gourmets with seafood delights...