Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear, cold New Mexico desert and methodically climbed into one of the strangest costumes ever worn by man. First he put on two suits of insulated, porous underwear, then a partial-pressure suit, heavy, quilted long underwear, standard Air Force flying suit, heavy G.I. socks, electrically heated socks, heavy woolen socks, rubberized boots (called Li'l Abners), nylon gloves, high-altitude pressure gloves, electrically heated flying gloves, glass-faced space helmet. At 3:30 a.m. he lay down on a tarpaulin on the desert floor and began breathing pure oxygen. In just five hours, red-haired Jet Pilot...
...tourist got off a plane in Port-au-Prince, told immigration officials he was Miles Gaham, 35, a dentist from Omaha. The Haitians looked right past his white cap, tight woolen shirt, dark glasses and absurd phony mustache, said: "Welcome, Marlon Brando." The actor had brought along a pretty Eurasian girl, who said her name was Timy Van Nga; occupation: student. In a U-drive-it Volkswagen, the two demonstrated the close relationship between love and Haiti, thrill-riding the island's mountain curves, dancing to voodoo drums at the nightclub Bacoulou. By week's end, when...
...boys' clothing are being instituted by Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. Union invoked contract clause that prohibits makers from handling apparel not made within union jurisdiction, will force three large New York-based chains-Ripley, Howard, Crawford (totaling 177 stores)-to halt imports of West German woolen loden coats...
...first triumphal tour of London. And on television with his famous guest, Macmillan took advantage of the fact that Ike could do little other than nod politely as the Prime Minister dropped debonair references to his own visit with Khrushchev, British distaste for U.S. tariffs on woolen goods and a clutch of other matters likely to convince British voters that good old Harold was the man to support. In the Evening Standard next day, Randolph Churchill sourly commented: "It was a fascinating experience last night to see the Prime Minister on TV with his campaign manager...
...Envy. When it comes to consumer goods, there is no doubt that the Russians are far behind. The textiles-mostly thick, heavy-textured woolen suits-a"e more impressive for their usefulness against the Russian winter than for their styles, which are clumsy attempts to copy Western designs. The Russian TV sets might have come out of U.S. living rooms (one bore the Russian brand name Admiral). The Russian cars looked like copies of small West European autos...