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Ring of Bright Water, by Gavin Maxwell. More resourceful than most current fictional heroes, Mijbil the Otter could turn on a water tap, unzip a zipper and chew razor blades. As a pet, he was hilarious and heartwarming, and so is the book Author Maxwell has fashioned about...
...clever little rascal. The first time he saw a water tap he turned it on in a matter of seconds, and the first time he saw a zipper-zing! it was open before Maxwell could lift a finger. He quickly learned to trot around London on a leash, sniff at fireplugs, untie the tightest knot with his teeth, and sleep on his back with his arms outside the covers just as his master did. And whenever Maxwell overslept, Mij darted beneath the covers, ripped them loose and stole the pillow...
Useful Garbage. Dealer Sam Greiff, who last year bought 2,120,000 surplus Zippers for $120,000, is slowly making a killing by selling them at cut rates to jacket manufacturers, is known in the trade as the Zipper King. Greiff has just bought 400,000 Army coat fronts (stiffening material for jackets) for $15,000, is now also known as the Stiffened Coat Front King. In a world where everyone is a king of some product, the king of kings is Eddie Tarashinsky, 43, whose father pioneered the surplus business in 1904, and whose twelve New York warehouses...
Army. Present strength is 172,000, the 1961 target 210,000 to 220,000. The seven German divisions in NATO, says Strauss, are intermeshed "like a Zipper" along the theoretical line of battle with British, Dutch, American and French divisions. Though the German army already has 3,000 U.S.-built tanks, Strauss plans to replace them with a lighter, faster, lower model to be produced jointly with the Italians and French. The army's other key vehicle, in conformity with the German World War II doctrine that infantrymen should ride straight into combat, is an armored personnel carrier (powered...
...children dressed as witches and a black cat bounded in the door, demanded trick or treat. For a time, Touré and Stevenson were closeted in the study, talking about trade conditions in Guinea. The dinner party might have lasted longer had not Mrs. Touré's dress Zipper broken. After temporary repairs with safety pins she collected her husband, headed home...