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...walked through the muddy, stinking, raucous market areas, holding his hand on his wallet, buying cheap souvenirs. There were fur caps and fur-lined boots, little carved figures, thousands of leather holsters and wallets, brass ashtrays and gaudy silk antimacassars, embroidered with the word "Korea," and the year. Behind the main streets, in the narrow alleys, he could purchase-with "no sweat"-scarce Army supplies, like light bulbs and radio batteries. There were piles of leather jackets from U.S. mail-order houses, gleaming rows of cheap watches smuggled in from Japan, gay shelves of Japanese cosmetics, even stacks...
...late austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, and Joseph Appiah, 32, African law student and personal representative in Britain of Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. When they emerged from St. John's Wood Church and paused for photographs, she in her mother's pearl silk gown, he in the crimson, yellow, black and green ceremonial robe of his tribe, they looked the picture of happy newlyweds. After honeymooning in Paris, they plan to live for a while at her London flat before settling down on the Gold Coast...
...Hagerty and Presidential Assistant C. D. Jackson set before the President an anniversary gift from the Cabinet and the White House staff: two dozen assorted fishing lures mounted on velvet. A bass lure with two gangs of hooks got loose and snagged the press secretary's navy blue silk trousers...
...house to the home of a friend. While he was away, his own house was looted and the windows and furniture smashed. Then two dozen young hoodlums stormed the friend's home, demanding to see Chough. Four broke into Chough's bedroom, found him in his silk underwear, beat him unconscious with fists and clubs. With cuts on his head, arm and right ear, Chough was whisked off to a hospital at Suwon...
...also put his finger on some of the questionable tactics of tariff lobbying. In the case of silk scarves, the "domestic industry" wanted to boost the price of European imports. But Eisenhower had difficulty finding a "domestic industry." Part of it, he wrote, consisted of "U.S. entrepreneurs who buy the raw silk in Japan, pay there for the labor at piece rates for the printing and finishing, which is all done under their supervision and continued ownership," then export the goods to the U.S. and sell them. Another part consisted of U.S. finishers who do piece-rate work on scarves...