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...European consumer. Paris' Galeries Lafayette, biggest department store in France, in 1957 imported only 1% of its goods. Today its counters sag with Italian clothes, furniture and glassware, German linen, leather goods and housewares, Dutch clothing and pottery-and some 8% of its sales are imported goods. Thanks to reduced tariffs, Dutch blouses that in 1958 sold for $10 now sell for $2.50, are one of the bestselling items in the store. A 1958 French refrigerator sold for $187. Today the same French company, under pressure from German competition, sells a larger and better refrigerator for only $120. "Before...
Students living in the Yard no longer receive room to room deliveries of linen and laundry. Under a new Administration ruling, representatives of the Coop Laundry, Gold Coast Valeteria and Gorden Linen have been denied entrance to all dormitories in the Yard...
Instead of dropping their dirty linen and laundry in front of their doors on their way to classes and returning to find the bundles magically whisked away in exchange for neat packages of fresh sheets and towels. Freshmen must now trudge to one of seven Harvard Student Agencies operated depots at rigidly specified hours, to wait in line for their clean shirts and sheets...
Welcoming the exhibit, James A. Linen, President of TIME Inc., said TIME'S purpose was to add to the public consciousness of the Berlin situation. "The news has many dimensions," he said. "One dimension gives people merely facts; still another lends a feeling of immediacy in these events, a feeling of history in the making. These are the things that our magazines always strive to give their readers." By playing host to the exhibit, he pointed out, TIME hopes to add a dimension of intimacy to the Berlin story: "For many visitors-for a great many, I hope...
...visitor leaves Olde England behind and steps into the Newe. From Wrentham, Mass., the museum brought a 17th century "keeping room," with furniture owned by Peregrine White, who was born on the Mayflower. Beyond that room is an 18th century staircase with its handy "valuables bag"-a homespun linen sack into which valuables could be thrown and, in case of fire, hurled out the window. Next come two connecting rooms from a house in Lee, N.H.-a kitchen-living room and a "borning" or "measles" room with a tiny cradle. From then on, the Americans began to indulge themselves...