Word: knit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clothes. Jonathan Logan's trademark is the "simple" dresses of basic style that can be worn more than one season. "Paris sets the trends, but we execute them," says Schwartz. While most Jonathan Logan clothes have junior-sized prices of $14.98 to $29.98, Schwartz also has lines (Butte Knit, Youth Guild, Junior Accent) that retail, after the stores' usual 60% markup...
...task of directing England's destinies with the same self-confident vigour that they drank and diced." Lamb was never certain who his father was because, as he put it, his mother "was not chaste." But he grew up with a sense of security in his close-knit, comfortable family, early developed a spirit of reasonableness. He fled his first fistfight at Eton with no sense of shame: "If I found I could not lick the fellow, I said, 'come, this won't do; it's no use standing here to be knocked to pieces...
...schoolteachers and instructors to train their own people in such trades as carpentry, plumbing, home economics, nursing. In the village of Rio Negro in southern Chile, Janet Boegli, 22, from Austin, Texas, shares a small house with two Chilean girls, teaches women how to use a sewing machine, knit, mix powdered milk, clean beer bottles to use for babies' formulas. Chilean volunteers have organized communities of 20-30 houses, called centros. They raise money to buy sewing machines and other needed equipment by organizing fiestas and raffles. "What's important," writes Volunteer Boegli, "is that we have shown...
...Kayser's better known "Kayser" hose, and Kentshire sheets by Pacific at $2.57 apiece, v. $3.49 for regular Pacific sheets. Though his competitors sneer that some of Ferkauf's "comparables" look more like sacks than Saks, he does offer many a genuine bargain. Samples: Italian hand-knit men's sweaters for $8.99, Dacron and wool men's summer suits for $25.48, French alligator handbags...
...eliminated all his seniors, Doi got around U.S. directives to split up the zaibatsu by organizing the White Water Society, a "social club" consisting of the heads of all former Sumitomo enterprises. Today, though the Sumitomo family is no longer in control, the Sumitomo companies again constitute a closely knit combine of more than 115 firms with 1961 sales of $884 million in everything from insurance to aluminum...