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Bapa v. Bunya. There are other superstitions, including the suea yant, a red jacket enscribed with Cambodian letters , Which is guaranteed to protect the wearer "against all harm so long as he has faith in the magic jacket. Seven lucky possessors of these jackets in one of Bangkok's northern suburbs recently took advantage of their invulnerability to terrorize the neighborhood. A fortnight ago, some 50 of their fed-up neighbors took axes and dropped in on the seven to test their magic garments. Before the cops arrived three of the seven were dead. But a brisk demand...
...learn how to run a pants cleaning shop or whether there is a market for hookah pipes in Nicaragua. Its archives contain patents for ornithopters (beating-wing flying machines) and a "pedal calorenticator" (a flexible rubber tube reaching from the nostrils to the inside of the shoes; the wearer can warm his feet merely by exhaling). In its basement is an aquarium left over from the Bureau of Fisheries (now under the Department of the Interior) where catfish, a man-eating piranha and a two-headed turtle sport and splash and amuse small boys...
...President George Whitney. Born in Murfreesboro, Tenn., Wall Streeter Alexander graduated from Yale Law School with honors, made a name as a corporation lawyer before joining the famed banking house in 1939. He is an adviser to the Salvation Army, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and wearer of the Medal for Merit for his wartime work as vice chairman of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey...
...Faced Woman. In Paris, Schiaparelli showed a new cocktail hat that would make even the lightest drinker see double. One side is a profile of the wearer (see cut), with a glittering brooch to simulate the eye, and a pendant "earring." Price, including jewelry...
...illustration of what he called the "Cyclone Look," Dior showed an evening gown that had nearly a score of stiffened folds projected backward, making it look as if the wearer were carrying a huge semicircular balloon on her stern. In his "Winged Line," beruffled evening dresses were boned, wired, lined and otherwise stiffened to flare out as much as two feet in all directions, preventing their wearers from sitting down, dancing within arm's reach of a partner, or standing...