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...functional. Braun hired Designer Heinrich Ernst Hoelscher in 1955 to re-engineer the company's products along lines that had already been adopted in the U.S. The men could do little to change the clumsy German name for the bra-Büstenhalter-but they did alter the garment itself. Out came deeply plunging bras made of stretchable synthetics with less padding and no old-fashioned bones; lighter, flower-patterned girdles; filmy nylon slips and translucent shortie pajamas. They instantly captivated Germany's willowy, style-conscious girls-to say nothing of their husbands. The synthetic stretch materials, says...
Competition from Communists. Demand is so brisk that garment makers have trouble getting enough silk for their needs. Because many Thai farmers prefer raising livestock to tending mulberry bushes, and some Buddhists have qualms about killing silkworms, production has held at about 500,000 Ibs. a year (v. 300,000 lbs. in 1939). Manufacturers are trying to persuade farmers to boost output, and have inadvertently sold some other people on the profitable prospects of Thai silk. In the sincerest form of flattery, Communist China has introduced an imitation Thai silk for sale in Hong Kong...
Kosher Label. There was scattered opposition from the floor. Said Louis Nelson, a longtime leader of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union: "You're trying to put a kosher label on this Lindsay!" Though the Liberal Party supported retiring Democratic Mayor Robert Wagner, it has lost some ground recently, and its leaders know that by fusing with a triumphant Lindsay it could maintain its standing as the city's third political force...
...Matter of Heart. Starting his campaign for the September primary, Screvane moved into Manhattan's heavily Jewish garment district, accompanied by Humorist Harry Hershfield. O.K., cried Hershfield, so maybe Screvane is of Italian-Irish descent and married to Limerick-born Bridie McKessy-but "he has a Jewish heart." Although by no means assured of his own party's nomination, Screvane went on the offensive against Republican Nominee John Lindsay, attacking him as a "socialite, silk-stocking Congressman" and as "the boss-backed candidate of the Republicans, who masquerades as an independent...
...preparation for his step-out into space, White spent 60 hours in vacuume chambers that simulated altitudes of up to 180,000 ft. Patiently, he practiced moving about in the suit he would wear outside the capsule. Weighing 31 lbs and costing over $30,000, the garment is a marvel of cautious construction With 22 layers, it acts as a coat ot armor, as a heat repellant, as protection from deep-freeze temperatures, and as a pressure force to keep White s body from exploding in the near-vacuum of space. Yet it also allows a certain freedom of movement...