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...speedup in spending for trucks and tanks. The Boston area, headquarters for 80 Government space contractors as well as many other suppliers, will also gain. At least three slow-rolling industries will perk up: textiles, as the Government increases its yearly $230 million budget for uniforms and cloth; machine tools, which are used more for making conventional weapons than missiles; railroads, which will move men and machines...
Divines from the East. The enthronement of the 100th Archbishop was a splendid ceremony. Never in history had the Anglican Communion rallied such a massing of the cloth as turned out at the 800-year-old Canterbury Cathedral to honor the new Primate of All England. More than 1,000 prelates walked in a mile-long procession to the clamor of bells, their many-colored robes billowing in the summer breeze. There were Anglican bishops, Scottish and Free churchmen, European Lutherans, and Old Catholic bishops from The Netherlands in the stiff white ruffs of a Van Dyck painting. Among...
...blame their troubles primarily on foreign competition and to clamor for protective quotas. Two months ago, when President Kennedy unveiled a vaguely worded "assistance program" for the industry, many textile men jumped to the conclusion that their hopes were about to be fulfilled. Last week they learned that the cloth was not cut their...
Twin Targets. Meeting in Washington with industry spokesmen and Congressmen from textile states, Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs George W. Ball made it plain that the Administration had no intention whatever of putting unilateral U.S. quotas on imports of foreign cloth. Instead, the U.S. was trying to work a squeeze play...
Fabrics, more than color, are the big highlights. Leather, knit and tweed are big (often combined, particularly by Bonnie Cashin). Cassini and Pauline Trigère have richly printed brocades, Dior-New York shows them in fine, polished, often solid colors. Tiffeau is using lizard in trim and whole cloth for a waterproof, black evening raincoat. For shimmer and shine, the original beads-and-glitter girl, Roxanne of Samuel Winston, has some old-style heavy beaded dresses as well as new lighter ones. Scaasi's long dresses have so much sparkle that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry...