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...Yugoslavia last week signed a five-year trade agreement. It called for a ?110 million ($308,100,000) volume of trade each way. Yugoslavia will get an ?8,000,000 loan, payable in five years. The Yugoslavs will exchange timber, corn and non-ferrous metals for British machinery, wool, chemicals and rubber products. At the same time, the two governments agreed to a settlement of ?4,500,000 for British property nationalized by Yugoslavia. Only four days before, the Yugoslav government had concluded a $126 million one-year trade agreement with Western Germany...
...Andean's house is stone or adobe, with a thatched roof. He sleeps on llama skins, and has no more sanitary conveniences than his llamas. He usually wears shirt, coat, knee-length pants, sandals made from old automobile tires, a poncho and a chullo (wool headgear with flaps, like a skater's cap). All these his wife makes for him. She also bears him children; the altitude, which often makes newcomers from the coast temporarily sterile, seems to have no such effect on highlanders...
...cold around Harvard, so objects like ear muffs, gloves, wool scarves, and mittens are good. Some women prefer clothes with more style, such as French gloves and nylon lingerie, but any female in her right mind will accept and appreciate a pair of stockings...
...cold and the reporters wondered if the President had his "wool-ies" on. "Just what you see here," said Harry Truman, pulling back the lapels of his overcoat. "Maybe you should have worn them," admonished Bess Truman...
...executive committee of the National Interfraternity Conference had omitted the touchy question from the agenda; it came up on the conference floor in Washington last week just the same. Agreed a majority of the representatives of U.S. Greek-letter societies, in a resolution swathed in verbal cotton wool: fraternities that have "selective membership provisions" (i.e., whose bylaws bar anybody on grounds of race or religion) ought to "eliminate such selectivity provisions." The vote: 36 for, 3 against, 19 abstaining...