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...caused a bitter battle with Los Angeles' Broadway-Hale. Last week it moved still closer. Long concentrated in the Midwest and West, May moved into the populous Northeast for the first time by buying, for $41 million, Hartford's 118-year-old G. Fox & Co. Silver to Underwear. The May Co. was as much chosen as choosing. Family-owned Fox has been dominated for 30 years by Mrs. Beatrice Fox Auerbach, who is now 78. Approached by several stores, she picked the May Co. partly because Morton May, like herself, is a third-generation merchant...
Snarls in the Streets. Since local jails were too small to hold them, hundreds of Negroes were shipped aboard chartered Trailways buses to Mississippi's Parchman State Penitentiary, a notorious bastille 204 miles away. There, demonstrators charged, they were forced to strip to their underwear and sleep without blankets, many on cold cement floors. Prisoners also protested that they were made to take laxatives but for two days were given no toilet paper. Their plaints, filtering back to Natchez, fanned Negro resentment-and by now the Klan was mobilizing its own forces. One night, enraged Negroes and snarling whites...
Once in China, White was given two suits, an overcoat, four pairs of underwear, ties, and Russian-made shoes that didn't fit. He traveled first-class to Taiyuan, capital of Shansi Province, where he spent a year studying Chinese. Then he went to Peking, where he enrolled at the Chinese Peoples University, attended classes 18 hours a week and eventually was allowed to enter law school in September 1956. During his first year of law courses, White studied Hegel, Marx and Engels, later boned up on Leninist ideology, but was allowed to skip studies on Mao Tse-tung...
Except, of course, to the opposite extreme. In the new undergarment collections, slips, half-slips, panty girdles, panties and bras are stirringly designed to be seen as well as to gird. Bright stripes, polka dots and designs are all over, lending underwear new snap, crackle and also pop. There is a panty brief with a printed-on image of an oversized zipper that never expected to or could get zipped, another with an American-flag motif. A third has a pair of eyes that wink from the rear, shed a tear in the front−virtually demanding comment from hasty...
...standard portraits of Marx and Lenin, Chagall discovered belatedly that the Communists wanted art to be as pragmatic as a tractor. Everything rained on his parade; when he decked out the town with 50,000 ft. of patriotic red bunting, Izvestia wondered sarcastically how many much-needed suits of underwear could have been made...