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Rising Deficits. Textile imports from countries that use American management methods and technology-but pay lower wages-are swamping the U.S. market. In 1961, the U.S. enjoyed a trade surplus of $53.7 million in cotton, wool and synthetic fibers. Since then, deficits have increased steadily. Last year the imbalance climbed 60%, to $807 million. Today 47% of all women's synthetic-fiber sweaters and 46% of all wool sweaters sold in the U.S. are manufactured abroad. One of every three men's all-wool suits is made from Japanese worsteds, and a quarter of men's shirts...
Foreign competition is most severe in man-made-fiber textiles, the most rapidly growing segment of the industry since advancing technology gave the world wash-'n'-wear shirts and permanent-press pants. Although synthetics account for 54% of U.S. textile production, imports have swelled from $59.7 million in 1961 to $481 million last year. Cotton-textile imports, once a serious threat to U.S. producers, are regulated by a restraining agreement negotiated with 31 countries in 1961. Today they are of diminishing importance as more and more foreign textile makers switch to synthetics...
...fields around Kallia, as sprinklers shoot jets of fresh water high in the air. Massey-Ferguson cultivators dig furrows, and Kallia's first crop of yellow corn is sprouting. One acre has been set aside for a hydroponic plot. Nutrients and chemicals from a 60,000-gal-lon fiber-glass reservoir wash long rows of coal-black tuff, a cinderlike debris of volcanic lava brought from the Golan Heights. In the tuff are melon and tomato seeds that may, thanks to the hydroponic forced feeding, yield up to ten times a normal crop. All told, the Israeli government...
...than half of the players in the National Hockey League are using the bowed blades, ranging from the slight bend favored by the Detroit Red Wings' Gordie Howe to the severe 1½-in. hook of Mikita's "banana stick." The innovation, comparable to the introduction of fiber-glass poles in pole vaulting or metal rackets in tennis, has revved up the pace of hockey and changed the entire style of play...
...world of the mind. It becomes an equally absurd ritual. Sex is real. There is certainly no doubt about that. But it is only real as part of our animalism. This should not be denied, and we need not be ashamed of it. Sex is one part, one fiber in the tapestry. If I love you, I will love your arms and legs, your hands and feet, your elbows and ankles and toes. My body will love your body, and sex will be part of that...