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Coin International, the leader of the new bond street, has achieved a 3-D effect by bonding a semitransparent Japanese print over a polka-dot crepe, thus allowing the polkas to show through the print. It is experimenting with scratchy materials such as fiber glass and burlap, which can be made wearable by bonding to a smooth inner skin. Also looming is a new rash of reversibles. Because bonding makes two-faced suits and coats possible, designers may soon be turning themselves inside out to give customers two costumes in one. Instead of going home to change...
...Announced the appointment of a 30-member National Advisory Commission on Food and Fiber, to be headed by University of Minnesota Agriculture Dean Sherwood Berg, to make a thorough study of U.S. agricultural problems and recommend solutions...
...plane. The car was powered by a General Electric J-79 engine (the same kind used in the Air Force's F-104), which Breedlove picked up in Charlotte, N.C., for $7,500-$170,000 below its original cost. Craig himself designed the car's aluminum and fiber-glass body; the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. agreed to foot most of the bill (about $200,000) and supply tires guaranteed to 850 m.p.h. Breedlove named the car Spirit of America-Sonic I, obliquely announced: "I'm not going to try to break the sound barrier-unless I have...
...Real Danger. The fiber makers are crossing borders and oceans to vie for markets. Courtaulds is building plants in Sweden, Imperial in Portugal, Holland's Algemene Kunstzijde Unie (A.K.U.) in Spain. Farbenfabriken is building in Belgium, Chemstrand in Scotland, Firestone in France. Du Pont will finish a new Dacron and nylon plant in Germany next year...
...will Europe be able to absorb this output when it begins flooding the market in the next three years? Despite warnings that capacity might rise faster than demand, fiber makers see little real danger ahead. Competition should mean lower prices, thus bigger markets. The biggest reason for optimism is the European consumer. Though synthetic-fiber production has doubled in five years, the average Frenchman still owns only two suits, and the average German woman still buys half as many girdles and bras as her U.S. counterpart...