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Threatening Child. Koratron's founder, San Francisco Garment Maker Joseph Koret, came upon the permanent-crease process in 1956 while searching for a way to keep creases in the pleats of his women's sportswear. By coating fabrics with a resin solution and then baking them in 325...
During the early months of his campaign, Lindsay even went politicking at Brooklyn's Brighton Beach in bathing trunks, grinning and shouldering his way bare-chested through the crowds-just as President Kennedy had done on a California beach in 1962. Lindsay eventually carried his activities beyond the beach...
Old Charlie. Some six miles away on the road to Plei Me, the tank-led relief column was braced for ambush. When it erupted from a thorn thicket, the tanks wheeled into something resembling the old wild West wagon-train circle-but there the similarity ended. Loaded with heavy canister...
In the 3,100-mile East African Safari, it helps if a driver knows his zoology. Cows confronted by cars act plain stupid: they have to be bumpered off the road. Sheep and goats scatter at the first toot. Elephants are cops, happily waving on traffic with their trunks. Rhinos...
All the while, Kuhn was trying, through a series of 50 telephone calls, to persuade or cajole some mysterious, disembodied voices to come up with the jewels. Whether those voices belonged to accomplices, fences, intermediaries-or maybe even talking porpoises-only Kuhn knew. Still, nothing seemed to jell. Nadjari once...