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...costs $500 million a year, is just one blade of the scissors that the textile industry finds itself caught between. U.S. foreign policy is the other. More than 50 countries have virtually embargoed U.S. textile imports by one means or another. Japan last year exported 135 million yds. of cloth to the U.S., but permitted U.S. imports of only 490.000 yds. The State Department resists imposing stiffer import quotas and tariffs because it does not want to damage the economies of nations that the U.S. is trying to prop up. When President Kennedy himself proposed an 8?-per-lb. tariff...
...India's taxpayers will have to deposit up to 3% of their after-tax incomes in government savings accounts; businesses whose after-tax incomes exceed 6% of their capital value must pay a 50% tax on all subsequent profits. All basic household goods, cloth, food and cooking fuels will be hit with new taxes. Only exceptions: sugar, shoes, rice and matches...
Although it specializes in ski wear and equipment, the store promises an extensive summer sportswear collection this year. There will be shifts of terry cloth, cotton, silk, and jersey including these of the Italian coutier Pucci based on wild Picasso silk screen prints. There will also be men's and women's sandals ($6 up) and bathing suits from Sweden and France...
...youthful willingness to experiment led him to some novel materials for collage: broken glass, nails, bones, metal and cloth-cloth that reminded him of the brocaded chairs, heavy draperies, dust-catching wall hangings of a century-old villa in the Italian lake country, where his family used to spend the summer...
...Cloth is the chief material for his generals. Some of them, like Portrait of a General (1961'), are uniformed in camouflage colors, their swollen chests decorated with real ribbons, braid and buttons. (The eyes are real watch faces.) The backgrounds, like those of most of his works, are remnants of fancy brocade, scraps of mattress ticking. He uses felt for faces, slopping on features with paint; sometimes the mouths have shards of glass for teeth, bits of lace for noses...