Word: leatherizing
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...steady stream of converts "deciding for Christ" every week. Tycoons listen to him respectfully, and grey-headed clerics sit at his feet. The humble send him gifts, and the great ones seek him out. Churchill invited him to Downing Street, and Eisenhower keeps one of Billy's red leather Bibles at his bedside. By all indications, that is just the beginning of a career that is making this Baptist from North Carolina one of the greatest religious influences of his time...
...garb. Designed in accordance with Pope Pius XII's plea for more rational, comfortable dress among nuns, the new habit features an oxford grey skirt (slightly flared and coming just below the knee), a loose box jacket, a white Peter Pan-collared blouse, a black pillbox hat, black leather pumps with medium heels, and nylons. Said Postulant Marian Mraz, 25, modeling the new outfit: "We'll be right up to date...
...economy to rights, the Swedish Ministry of Trade last week prescribed strong medicine: pour in cheap foreign goods to bring prices down. To attract imports from the U.S. and other countries, Sweden abolished tariffs and restrictions on about half its imports. Included on the free list: chemical products, leather goods, most metal products, all paper except newsprint, wood products, shoes, hats, pottery, rubber products, glassware, dried and canned fruits, rice, brier pipes, fountain pens. In addition, the Trade Ministry eased restrictions on most commodities still requiring licenses...
Such early-season skill was not easily come by. For two tough training weeks in Oklahoma's late-summer heat, Coach Bud Wilkinson had been driving his men to the ragged edge of exhaustion. Up each day before dawn, a leather-tough squad of 58 Sooners-including a nucleus of 20 veterans-had been busily belting each other groggy. The Wilkinson split-T breaks down into intricate offensive patterns, but the Wilkinson formula for success is simple: "Sweat, sweat, and more sweat." The Sooners sweated. Hour after hour. Quarterback Gene Calame pirouetted through a series of fakes to perfect...
Radioactive Guard. To protect factory workers, Hazatrol Corp. of San Francisco has developed a radioactive leather wristband that stops machines when a careless worker endangers himself. The wristbands are radioactive enough to set off a Geiger counter that controls a safety-stop mechanism. But the radioactivity is too low to harm workers. Installed price of the control mechanism: about...