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...Paulino Alvarez. Whenever islanders talk of the terroristic carro de la muerte (death car) that disposed of the regime's earlier enemies, or the later massacre of 15,000 immigrant Haitian sugar-cane cutters, Paulino's name comes up. In payment for such chores Trujillo let Paulino wrap his blimplike belly in the uniform of an honorary major general and play the role of Despot No. 2. Inevitably, No. 2 got to thinking of himself as a likely successor. But that was not to be. Last week Anselmo Paulino was a broken man, stripped of his influential office...
...Burma, men wear skirts. They wrap the skirts, which are called longyis, around the hips and gather them at the waist in one simple, unknotted hitch. The longyi has its advantages: one can bathe in it without undressing (by wrapping a dry longyi over the wet one and dropping the wet one in the bath), which is convenient since in Burma the poor usually bathe at public wells or faucets; one can also unhitch the longyi in Burma's uncomfortable humidity, spreading the cloth with an easy, billowing motion, letting in a refreshing draft of air without exposure. Longyis...
...bareback, halter-type sunsuits may be worn without a jacket or wrap." ¶ "No bare midriff costumes." ¶ "No strapless, low-cut dresses except in clubs or at appropriate social functions." ¶ "No shorts on teen-agers or women...
...cross no man's land to carry to the Germans the message of peace-on-earth. The corporal, the Christ-figure, is so vague, his powers so unexplained, as to be a symbol without point. But literal lack of point has never bothered Faulkner, nor has the smothering wrap of coincidence. The corporal turns out to be none other than the illegitimate son of the French marshal, generalissimo of all the Allied armies (and presumably, therefore, a Faulknerian Marshal Foch). And where was the Christ-corporal born? In a stable...
...model changes will be in Chevrolet and Pontiac, which will generally resemble the Olds, have wrap-around windshields and, probably, visored headlights. Chevvy will also have a new V-8 engine with about 150 h.p., v. its present 125-h.p., six-cylinder power plant. Pontiac will probably get a 150-h.p., V-8 engine to replace its present 127-h.p straight-eight...