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...approximately equaling the Baptists. According to the best estimates, it would take a minimum of ten years to put the plan into effect. This seemed still a bit hasty to Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft (younger brother of the late Senator Robert A.), who plumped for a slower, looser merger. And Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles, president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, thought the Blake proposal vague...
...century U.S. art. Outraged by his fantasy, critics inveighed against Prendergast's paintings as "whirling arabesques that tax the eye." "unadulterated slop," and "the product of much cider drunk at Saint-Malo." If Prendergast felt the sting, he left no record of it. His brush became still looser, his rhythms more intricate, his outlines so subtle that his paintings almost began to look as if they had been woven. But for all their technical innovations, his works con tinued to reflect a childlike world eternally at play...
Next January Maidenform will put on sale a new line of women's swimsuits equipped with Maidenform bras. Mrs. Rosenthal also thinks that there is a market for sleeping brassieres, hopes to produce a looser Maidenform for the bedroom. The company is also studying synthetic fibers that may eventually replace rubber elastic. From the girl of twelve to the woman of 80, Ida Rosenthal (one of her own best customers) believes that nature can still stand a lot of improving...
Women who once owned only one bathing suit now have four or five. Form-molding Lastex is popular in swimsuits in many areas of the U.S., but cotton suits are more practical for suburban housewives. They like to wear the looser cotton suits around the home, wrap a skirt around themselves to do errands, throw on a sweater for an evening barbecue...
...unified tariff wall against outside nations, the Common Market Six would throw a spanner into intra-European trade. What they really meant was that Britain's exports to the Six would be hurt. Even when they formalized the economic division of Western Europe by organizing the rival but looser seven-nation European Free Trade Association, Britain's leaders insisted that all they were trying to do was "build a bridge" between the Common Market and the rest of Europe...