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...ceremonies, though he still has to watch Chou to find out where to stand and when to speak. A recent foreign visitor was astonished to see Huang, at an airport reception, standing at attention in uniform, apparently unaware of the blue-and-white-striped pajamas sticking out of his trouser legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: The Army's Man | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

...last week the movement scaled new piques when more than 100 mod-and trouser-clad feminists marched into the fifth floor Manhattan headquarters of Downe Communications, publishers of the Ladies' Home Journal. The women (who represented a variety of Liberation groups) demanded "an immediate stop to the publication of articles that are irrelevant, unstimulating and demeaning to the women of America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Woman-Power | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...conflict between idealism and materialism is expressed in the confrontation between Otto Rupf, head of the international trouser company, and Romulus. The gruffly energetic portrayal of Rupf by Rich Anderson overemphasized this already obvious distinction...

Author: By Robert Edgar, | Title: Romulus at Dunster House through Nov. 14 | 11/8/1969 | See Source »

...Japanese use acid sprays to disintegrate trouser pockets. They're experts at removing tourists' cameras: just lift gently and slash the strap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Pickpocket Season | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...lacks the elegance of the croissant, the sophistication of the English muffin, the intrigue of the bagel. But for millions of West Germans, the day begins with Brötchen, the hand-grenade-shaped breakfast roll with a shell so tough that it travels well in trouser pockets and can bear giant charges of Schmalz or butter and jam without buckling. Trouble is, the best Brötchen is freshly baked Brötchen, and that is denied West Germans through a quirk of law dating back to Hitler. To end night shifts for bakers, the Nazis in 1936 forbade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Brotchen from Heaven | 6/28/1968 | See Source »

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