Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Republicans who are planning to run for office are doing their best to disguise their Republicanism. New Hampshire Congressman Louis C. Wyman, who is campaigning for the Senate seat of retiring Norris Cotton, is playing down his party affiliation. "This seat belongs to the people, not to any particular party," says a Wyman aide...
...rising costs of food, gasoline and rent, inflation-riddled Americans now have still another worry. As the Christmas shopping season begins, prices of clothes and most other textile goods are climbing. A man's cotton dress shirt tagged $12 a year ago is selling for at least $14 this holiday season-if the shopper can find what he wants...
...Cotton is the most widely used natural fiber, but long staple (quality cotton) is no longer very stable. Demand for all grades is so greatly outstripping supply that the price of raw cotton is about 650 a lb., v. 250 a year ago. In Atlanta, a decorator showing drapery samples cautions: "Don't choose anything with cotton-it's sky-high." In Bar Harbor, Me., a manufacturer of sea bags says that he is going out of business because he cannot get any more duck cloth. In San Francisco, Levi Strauss & Co. has begun informally to ration jeans...
...that desert region are talking mostly about the effect the power plant is having on the once beautiful vistas that the crystal clear air afforded. In rural Arkansas, residents are talking about the effect which the power plant is going to have on their economic livelihood. Rural Arkansas is cotton and soybean country, and scientific studies have long ago demonstrated the susceptibility of cotton and beans to damage by extremely low levels of sulfur dioxide in the air. The farmers of Wright, Redfield, Ferda, and Plum Bayou don't want to see their means of making a living destroyed...
...hospitalized briefly on the eve of her wedding. Sue Lyon's ailment: strep throat and fatigue brought on by the hassles of arranging her marriage to a Colorado State prisoner, who is serving 40 years for second-degree murder and aggravated robbery. Sue first met Gary ("Cotton") Adamson, 33, in 1970, when she visited a friend who was sharing Gary's cell in a Los Angeles County jail. Now she plans to campaign for prison reform, specifically for prisoners' conjugal rights. As she puts it, "God said to procreate. The prison system is going against the Bible...