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Every woman knows how the scarf-makers tried. They snipped everything from chiffon to cotton to sensuous silk into triangles, trapezoids and squares. Givenchy and Balenciaga dappled the shapes with abstract slashes; Emilio Pucci colored them with wildly vibrant designs that looked like stained glass; lesser lights tried everything from polka dots to reproductions of Botticelli paintings. But even when the Mona Lisa was pulled flat over the hair and reefed under the chin, the result was strictly Ellis Island-that flattopped look, with a tail either drooping forlornly at half-mast or sticking out behind like the flight deck...
...students came from all walks of Chinese life. All wore the same blue cotton clothes and ate the same food in the cafeteria. Most students walked to school or took the bus, though many had bicycles. There was no tuition and book fees ran somewhat under five dollars per year for the nationally standardized textbooks...
...promised a loan of $50 million for oil-well machinery and extended for another five years its oil-exploration project in Pakistan. On the economic side, trade between the two countries will be trebled, with Russia exchanging autos, tractors and road-building machinery for Pakistan's jute, raw cotton, hides and tea. Next week Ayub Khan continues his tour by jetting to Washington for conferences with President Lyndon Johnson and a five-day visit...
...office, says Wolfe, everyone whispers in imitation of their sibilant boss. "He always seems to have on about 20 layers of clothes, about three button-up sweaters, four vests, a couple of shirts, two ties, it looks that way, a dark shapeless suit over the whole ensemble, and white cotton socks...
...Valley. Under a 1944 treaty, the U.S. promised to share the river for irrigation. Mexico built a dam one mile below the border, spider-webbed the once desolate Mexicali Valley with irrigation canals. Then in 1961, under the Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project in Arizona's Yuma Desert, U.S. cotton growers began draining salty irrigation water from their soil-and flushed the residue back into the river, whose salt content rose from a tolerable 800 parts per 1,000,000 to more than 6,000. Mexicali crops withered, and the Mexican government estimated farm losses at $80 million...