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...trade program as a whole, the President is reverting to unabashed protectionism for the tattered textile industry. Last week, amid howls of protest from textile-shipping Japan and Hong Kong, the U.S. Tariff Commission was considering Kennedy's call for an 8½?-per-lb. tariff on imported cotton textiles. Simultaneously, the Administration was pressing 19 textile-producing foreign nations to sign a five-year gentleman's agreement that in effect would freeze foreign exports of cotton textiles to the U.S. at roughly 1961 levels. The White House is also considering a plan to slap similar restrictions...
...hospital nurse worth her starch takes high pride in beds made with cotton sheets stretched tightly over a rubberized or plastic mattress cover, which is a tidy and sanitary practice-and one that can cause agonizing pain or even death from bedsores. Patients confined to bed in one position for long periods are almost certain to get blisters over the lower spine. Patients who develop ulcers, as sometimes happens among aged victims of broken hips...
...Glenn hauled him into a boat, where the diver quickly recovered. Then Vice President Lyndon Johnson flew in from Washington to escort Glenn back to the overwhelming welcome at Cape Canaveral. "In my country," said Johnson, on the flight up to Florida, "we'd say you're pretty tall cotton." Glenn grinned. "Were you very tense at take-off?" asked the Vice President. "I imagine I was," murmured Glenn. Said Johnson: "You were about as near the Lord's end as a person ever...
...suspect that they are being frozen out of international trade. In Europe's Common Market, they see only a wall designed to keep Japanese goods out of Europe. The 19-nation Geneva agreement on textiles published last week will, in fact, open new markets in Europe for Japanese cotton goods, but this does not pacify the Japanese, who have focussed instead on the attempts of the U.S. to reduce its imports of Japanese textiles. In Washington last week, a delegation of Japanese businessmen testified that if the U.S. adopts President Kennedy's proposal...
Wintering at a rented $175,000 California "cottage," Former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, 65, who preferred aspirin-sized pillboxes long before the Age of Jackie, was coaxed by a local boutique keeper into an unlikely flopper model. Especially designed for the midday desert sun, the cotton-eyelet chapeau is peddled to the carriage trade by the Palm Springs Racquet Club's "Glady's Shop" under the fetching tag of "chambermaid...