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...gold-and-silver-threaded theater coat for John's raiment. Ringo wears silk tweed, with jute-thread-embroidered collar and wooden prayer beads. George sports a peasant-woven, hand-washable cotton from India. Paul's jacket is made of $98-a-yard pure-gold-threaded fabric originally woven for the ceremonial robes of Tibet's Dalai Lama, who had to flee his throne before he could take delivery. The background rug, Persian but of Indian design, was borrowed from Liberty's of Regent Street, where it was priced...
...Since Mao Tse-tung took over the Chinese mainland, immigration via Hong Kong has swelled incrementally: more than 4,000 Chinese a year now settle in the Bay Area, creating a job shortage so severe that exploitation is the order of the day-and night. The traditional Chinese family fabric has visibly frayed. With mothers working, delinquency climbs. Tenement squalor sustains a tuberculosis rate double that of San Francisco as a whole...
...suits worn by the astronauts burned, as interior temperatures rose to 1,500° F. To withstand such heat, the nylon outer covering of the Apollo suit has been replaced by Beta cloth-an advanced form of glass fiber produced by Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Backing up the new fabric are 14 layers of fire-resistant material. Even if they were caught in an on-board inferno, the Apollo astronauts would have several minutes of protection while wearing the new suit. Big gest problem posed by the new fiber is its susceptibility to wear. For protection, the new Apollo suits...
...give more tone and prestige to department stores that usually boast of their low-price bargains. A few expensive shops in half a dozen U.S. cities sell a tiny number of custom-fitted Paris interpretations at extremely high prices; cheaper concerns turn out low-cost copies in nonoriginal fabrics. Ohrbach's and Alexander's win their acclaim by making large numbers of line-for-line copies in the original fabric at a price not entirely out of reach...
...rushed off to New York. On arrival, the cartons are rushed to a select group of Seventh Avenue manufacturers who do the copying job for Ohrbach's and Alexander's on special consignment. The appropriate European clothmaker, contacted in Paris, has already sent along precisely the same fabric that went into the original. But sometimes the search for just the right button or strap can take days. When copying time comes, the originals are never taken apart...