Word: vests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little as 2½ ft. per person in some regions-"just enough," said one refugee, "to patch our rags." So severe is the shortage, according to the official Peking People's Daily, that "clothes hospitals" are making "short-sleeved shirts out of long-sleeved shirts, a vest out of a short-sleeved shirt, and underwear out of a vest...
...shouted at her from the stage: "I told you. Mom! I told you!" His formal education ceased at that level and, to his mother's dismay, he spent the next few years standing around on street corners, usually dressed in a grey suit, a pearl grey double-breasted vest, a yellow polka-dot tie, a polka-dot handkerchief, a polka-dot scarf, a chesterfield, a derby and spats-doing absolutely nothing...
...close to where it all began during the first bloody months of independence only 15 months ago. Preparing for a possible new round of civil war, U.N. forces got their first shipment of eight jets (from Sweden and Ethiopia) last week, and one Congolese Cabinet officer bought a bulletproof vest from a discreet St. James's tailor in London...
...Where President Arturo Frondizi in familiar style, last week summarily put down a vest-pocket revolt of 150 ultranationalists without firing a shot, thus surviving his 3Oth crisis in 39 months in office...
Jardines' shares were no run-of-the-mill investment. Playing its cards close to the vest, the company admits only to assets of $20 million and 1960 profits of $1.5 million. But as Hong Kong agents for 77 major companies, Jardines sluices Western products ranging from machine tools to fine Scotch throughout Asia. In addition, the company owns much of the richest land in booming Hong Kong, controls two of the island's three profitable English newspapers, and has substantial interests in banking, shipping, insurance, utilities, streetcars and airlines. So powerful are Jardines' executives, who traditionally...