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...excluding the Mother Hubbard, the feathers of the Harpies, or the St. Laurent trapeze, is the saggy, sorry habit of the British private-school girl. At best, the ensemble -long black woolen or cotton stockings, knickers that approach the knee, a vague navy-blue outer garment called a gym slip and a long-sleeved, high-necked blouse with a frumpy tie-makes her resemble a hockey goalie; at sorriest, a carelessly stuffed knackwurst. Cartoonist Ronald Searle immortalized the getup in his books on "St. Trinian...
...minutes for taxiing down a 10,000-ft. apron to the runway). SAC has keyed its 3,700 combat crews so tautly to what SAC Commanding General Thomas Sarsfield Power calls "the compression of time in the Atomic Age" that SAC is even designing a new type of slip-on shoe to save alert crews the few seconds spent on fumbling with shoelaces...
...solid and trustworthy in the daylight, was a black hole now. At the edge of it a small, skinny boy stood staring big-eyed into the darkness. A tree creaked in the night wind. The boy looked wildly over his shoulder. He almost wished that somebody had noticed him slip out, but people hardly ever noticed little Alec. "Come on, Guinness!" he told himself between chattering teeth. "Come on!" He began to run. He ran clear around the football field as fast as his scrubby legs could carry him, and then ran round it again. He ran through the side...
British electrical manufacturers, who are the largest European exporters to the U.S., fired off an angry rebuttal. They said that equipment of inferior quality, either foreign or domestic, cannot slip by rigid U.S. testing standards for federal power projects. As for repairs, British manufacturers have major plants in nearby Canada...
Back to Congress last week with a crisp rejection slip from President Eisenhower went the 1958 farm bill. For the second time in two years, said Ike, Congress had sent him farm legislation "which I cannot in good conscience approve." Intended to freeze 1958 price supports at not less than 1957 levels, the vetoed bill, like the one in 1956. was an election-year stratagem by which 1) Democrats hoped to embarrass the Administration, and 2) farm-belt Republicans hoped to horsefeather their re-election chances...