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...score of quota proposals before Congress. They could affect $12 billion, or 75% of the nation's dutiable imports: not only textiles and dairy items but also apparel, steel, shoes, glass, oil, lead, zinc, pot ash, electronic products, ball and roller bearings, meat, honey, frozen strawberries, mink fur and watches. The three major bills have impressive senatorial backing: 29 co-sponsors for oil quotas, 36 for steel and 68 for textiles-in the third case enough to override a promised presidential veto. In the House, "there is a growing tendency to protectionism," said Majority Leader Carl Albert of Oklahoma...
With his kindly Kris Kringle smile, his Katzenjammer accent and his snow-white hair, Professor Herbert Marcuse of the University of California's San Diego campus seems too charmingly ge nial to be a revolutionary. He coos over the fine fur of his rust-colored cat, Freddie, and holds a lifetime membership in the San Diego Zoo, where he affectionately favors owls, elephants and hippopotamuses. Yet whether in Berkeley or Berlin, today's youthful radicals, who are challenging the most basic premises of industrial society, increasingly turn to the writings of the aging (he will...
Does the woman who purchases an exotic fur coat realize that one day she may wear the last sea otter, Somali leopard, cheetah, or any one of innumerable other mammals unfortunate enough to have a pelt sought by the fur trade...
...otter is coming back on the market. Under protection the herds have multiplied to a present population of some 40,000-enough so that Alaska has begun harvesting a strictly controlled number of pelts. Last week more than 100 buyers representing the world's top fur houses converged on the Seattle Fur Exchange to compete for Alaska's initial harvest. In less than two hours of bidding, Alaska Governor Walter J. Hickel, who revived the trade as a state-owned enterprise, presided over the sale of 826 skins. The record-breaking top price: $2,300 per skin, paid...
...said Liebes. Adds Alexander Ehrlich of Manhattan's Bergdorf Goodman, who was commissioned by Alaska to produce a sample, full-length cape to stimulate interest, went on to buy 30 pelts: "With all the couturiers looking for something new, this is the ideal time to introduce this fur. Now it's up to the women." And perhaps to the men as well. Ed Shepherd, in charge of Alaska's sea-otter trade, recalls that the fur was once lavished on masculine apparel, says: "I wouldn't be at all surprised to see knee-length sport coats...