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...Mods have won." Nothing is so Out, so totally not with it, as greasy dungarees and black leather jackets (though a few rebels still hang around, disconsolately gunning their motorcycles). The latest In look for girls is the very skinny look, striped jersey dresses, a lot of yellow, trench coats, berets (especially knitted ones), granny shoes (mostly yellow, please) and big earrings. Just as the '30s look is already returning for men (wider ties, big lapels, black and white shoes), some fashion designers believe that it is on its way for women and will force their hemlines down again...
Military directives rarely make snappy reading, dealing as they do with such weighty subjects as the terrors of trench foot, the best way to dig a latrine and the importance of keeping boots polished. But as in most matters, Red China is different. A 776-page collection of Red Chinese army documents just published by Stanford University's Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace is a fascinating exception. The papers, some of which were captured from Chinese Communist junks off the South China coast, some probably filched by Chinese Nationalist spies, cover most of 1961-a year when...
...With a mere 200-ft. ceiling, the choppers and planes had to come in right on the Communist guns-and six were shot down. One skidded safely onto the airstrip in a gear-up landing, and its pilot, Major Stafford ("Jump") Myers, 46, jumped out and scrambled into a trench. Minutes later, his fellow pilot, Major Bernard Fisher, had braved the hail of fire to land his Skyraider on the same short strip. "Nobody's ever seen an old man like me run so fast in his life," Jump explained later. He made it safely to Fisher...
...hole was dug along with a trench to the mud; the trench was opened and the mud began to flow. Enter don da casa: "What is going on here?" It was obvious. His yard was being filled with black mud. He had been away, out of touch; and thus the logic of urban-community development was a complete mystery to him. The ensuing confusion ended the moment the mud ceased to flow; what can one say to a yardful...
...show focused on celebrities' pups. Porgie Cassini, Columnist Igor's beagle, showed the crowd a few pointers in a $10 tight-fitting white knit turtleneck. Rufus Cass, a Cavalier King Spaniel owned by Comedienne Peggy Cass (To Tell the Truth), trotted out in a snappy Garbo trench coat and green velvet beret designed for Special Farces. Mimi and Camille Henderson, Skitch's miniature poodles, sported twin $150 red mole coats that were belted at the waist, and Buffee Gore, Singer Lesley Gore's poodle, hit a high note with a vicuna snow suit with red trim...