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Cordially yours, James A. Linen...
...girls aged 14 to 17. Of all teen-agers in the survey owning bobby-sox (3% do not), 70% prefer cotton socks, v. only 10% for nylon and 5% for wool. In summer clothes cotton's lead is still bigger: 94% prefer cotton skirts, v. 2% for linen and i% or less for every other fabric covered. Wool leads in winter skirts (68% v. cotton's 17%) and nylon leads in dress-length slips (45% v. 39%), but in the majority of categories the vote is for cotton. Cotton, said the girls, is not only easy to wash...
Until a few weeks ago, the activities of professional pressure groups had been one of the few deep, dark secrets of American political life. With an understandable reluctance to expose dirty legislative linen to the public eye, Senators and Representatives have kept closemouthed about the techniques of lobbys. The lobbyists themselves were not talking; and the art and science of influencing lawmakers was a well-closeted skeleton...
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...women's giant slalom, the crisp and speedy skill that won at Oslo for U.S. Housewife Andrea Mead Lawrence was scarcely in evidence. Andy Lawrence wound up in a tie for fourth. Gold medal winner: Germany's chubby Ossi Reichert. CJ Finnish Forest Ranger Veikko Haku-linen won the 3O-kilometer (18 miles, 1,125 yards) cross-country skiing championship, finished in front of Sweden's Six-ten Jernberg and a strong Russian squad that took every place from third to sixth. By week's end unofficial team scores put Russia's first Winter Olympics...