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...Barwick, mother of four Stateside children, will roast a wild boar and some venison, bake a few pies. There will be tango music blasting across the red dirt street from Banmethuot's Chinese cinema, and John will pass around iced Algerian wine. Instead of the traditional Christmas tree, cotton balls on bamboo shoots will have to do. After the party the young American assistants will leave Banmethuot; two by two, they will scatter into remote settlements of Viet Nam, teaching still others to farm-earning still other copper bracelets that cannot be found under the tree at home...
...Force Academy (9-0-1)-proved an infant prodigy in its fourth season of existence, beat faltering Colorado 20-14 and accepted a Jan. 1 date with Texas Christian in the Cotton Bowl...
...Texas Christian (8-2)-suffered the understandable letdown and lost to Southern Methodist 20-13 after clinching the Southwest Conference title and a place in the Cotton Bowl with a competent but starless team...
These woes are aggravated by the Government's absurd cotton-subsidy program, under which the Government dumps cotton abroad at 20% below U.S. prices. Foreign textilemen then make U.S. cotton into cut-price cloth that has won away U.S. markets both abroad and at home...
Such improved synthetics have cut into the market for Old King Cotton. In one generation the percentage of cotton-fiber sales dipped from 85% to 65% of total U.S. fiber sales. But cottonmen are fighting back by developing goods with wash-and-wear finishes. Most of Dan River's cottons are now treated with finish that produces drip-dry, wrinkle-free cotton shirts, bedsheets...