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...monsoon downpour rained on the Plain of Jars last week-and so did a barrage of Communist Pathet Lao artillery and mortar shells. In an effort to consolidate last month's ground gains on the Plain, the Reds began pinpoint artillery attacks on the last remaining Neutralist toe holds on the plateau, as well as on the headquarters of Neutralist Army Leader General Kong Le at Muong Phan, just west of the Plain. Typically, the Reds blamed the U.S. for the resumption of hostilities, said that "the Americans have given orders to the reactionaries of Kong Le to attack...
Britain's hardworking, high-living Charles Clore, 58, has built an empire since 1953 out of ships, manufacturing, real estate and shoes. But the cockney-born, self-made Midas turns out to have an Achilles' heel-or toe. Last week, announcing a 4% profit drop in 1962 for his huge, seven-company British Shoe Corp., Clore blamed the loss partly on what he called "the square-toe debacle...
British Shoe, said Clore, had followed what appeared to be a trend away from the pointed-toe, stiletto-heel shoe toward the lower heel and square tip that became briefly popular in the U.S. and on the Continent. But in England hardly anybody bought them, and stiff-uppered British Shoe was left with an inventory estimated to be as high as 200,000 pairs. Clore blamed the loss on British fashion writers, charged them with marching into the square toe at the head of a nonexistent army...
...Sylvia Porter-type column of financial advice from "Our Young Man in the City." A new "With It" page offers tips on how to achieve instant sophistication (among them: "barbaric feet for summer," festooned with a "slinky gold mesh snake's head anklet" or "a creepy gold mouse toe ring...
...than a little strange. Enthusiasts cherish such oddities as the scene in which two characters try to make love in a recumbent church bell. Further, the entertainments are pleasantly foggy with the mists that rise off deep psychological and intellectual waters. The characters rarely do more than waggle their toes in these depths, but the feeling is conveyed that they are all excellent swimmers. In The Unicorn, her seventh novel, the author unwisely grows impatient with toe dipping. She pitches her characters into the murkiest of the soul's dark waters, and leaps in after them. But the water...