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This was reported by informed diplomats as Hammarskjold met Egyptian President Nasser tonight to explore the tangle of Middle East issues. They include such varied problems as the Gaza Strip, Suez and the Gulf of Aqaba that have become snarled in the same ball of twine...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Hammarskjold Says Israel Must Leave Negeb Before Using Suez; Ike, Macmillan Reach Agreement | 3/22/1957 | See Source »

...brought a cargo of 73, fresh from the perilous escape across the border. Clutching their cheap cloth satchels, they shuffled gratefully to shelter. One boy, dressed in a knitted hat and an oversize leather coat, carried all his belongings in a paper bundle strapped to his back with brown twine. An old woman proudly displayed the packet of soil that she had dug from her garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REFUGEES: The Huddled Masses | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...first became interested in the work while demonstrating hooked rugs in a Pasadena department store in an effort to promote sales of yarn. A customer suggested that he try to make a Persian rug. With no instruction, he assembled a loom from four sticks and a quantity of seine twine. A rug-maker showed him how to tie a Persian knot and Ridd began his project...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: The Mystic Art of Persian Rugs | 11/16/1956 | See Source »

Fast work, patience, and binder's twine were enough to rig the ailing Harvard Band drum into shape for the game today at Cornell. When the eight foot drum nearly collapsed two days ago, undergraduate Band manager Alan S. Novick '55 feared that the decaying instrument would stay home for the first time in 27 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Bass Drum to Be Present At Pre-Dawn Ithaca Serenade | 10/9/1954 | See Source »

...jousted with sword and lance from the backs of elephants. Once a man was unseated, the fight was finished on foot, without weapons. After a while Thais stopped bothering with elephants and did all their scrapping hand to hand. Fighters took to wrapping their fists and forearms with cotton twine, dipping the resulting gauntlets into gum and sprinkling them liberally with broken glass. Before a fight, the gum was allowed to harden until a man's arm became a club. There were no weight limits, no rounds-only a punctured coconut shell floating in a container of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shall We Dance? | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

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