Word: leatherizing
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...long memory of man, the fly-by-night, leather-winged bat has seldom been anything but a creature of ill repute-a companion of witches and devils and a portent of disaster. Though naturalists like to argue that bats are humanity's benefactors because they gobble vast quantities of insects, rare is the man who even bothers to listen. Soon, even the naturalists may moderate their enthusiasm, for the U.S. Public Health Service has produced scientific backing for the bat's repulsive reputation...
...grass roots and other plants. Elsewhere, factories in need of spare parts or raw materials are standing idle. Families are now rationed to 2½ ft. of cotton cloth a year-"enough to patch my pants," growled one refugee who fled to Hong Kong. Faced with a leather shortage, there is a desperate search for new material to make shoes. One Dairen factory is trying to make shoes from fish skins...
...Strip that their favorite priest was leaving town. The Rev. Richard Anthony Crowley, 51, had been assigned by his bishop to a parish in Springfield, Ill., where a Roman Catholic priest might look a bit out of place in a $6,850, 105-m.p.h. white sports car with green leather upholstery. Last week the Vegas crowd threw Father Crowley a farewell party in the town's saucer-shaped Convention Center...
...Grudge. It was the same old Jomo. The spade beard was mottled with grey, but the clothes that he wears like a uniform-brown leather jacket, baggy corduroy trousers, red tie-were the same as the clothes he wore at the time of his arrest by the British in 1952. Now as then, he denies complicity in the Mau Mau terror which cost the lives of more than 13,000. Says Kenyatta: "I have never been a violent man. My whole life has been antiviolence." As for the eight years of detention, partly spent at remote Lodwar, where...
Shaking down as Boston's new civil defense director was Charles W. Sweeney, 41. well-heeled leather manufacturer and a brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve. Previous experience: piloting the B-29 that flew as wing plane on the first atomic strike over Hiroshima and of the one that three days later dropped the even more lethal Nagasaki bomb...