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...University and co-director of the School of Visual Arts, he has a chance to preach what he practices. "People are no longer interested in what Mr. Green says to Mr. Red," says he of abstract expressionism, so he began making constructions that, at their onset, look like Playskool peg toys (see opposite page). Like Matisse, his favorite artist of the past 50 years...
...enterprise system has bred an underground elite: the hard-to-find specialists who can make brand-new shoes wearable, alter off-the-peg suits and dresses so that they have a semblance of style, or give a broken appliance the "provisional" treatment, as the Russians call their intuitive knack for makeshift repairs...
...while retaining the absorbent qualities of the old fiber. Nowadays it is usually blended with a cheap grade of cotton to produce such items as bed sheets that feel like percale and towels that can be dyed brilliantly and absorb more water than cotton. Because of Government supports that peg the cheapest cotton at 3210 per lb., rayon enjoys a substantial price advantage, is the cheapest fiber available...
...effective competition and keeping down costs and prices." Despite lingering Tory doubts, Prime Minister Douglas-Home stood firmly behind Heath, who promised that a bill would be ready for Parliament's consideration within a fortnight. "It cannot be in the interests of the consumer," said Douglas-Home, "to peg prices at artificially high levels...
...permit his workers to make payroll contributions to the United Fund-it costs too much time for his clerks to figure out the deductions. Irving has also shown a knack for breaking strikes in the past. But even those who would like to take K. C. Irving down a peg realize that what really hurts this stubborn tycoon is bound also to hurt New Brunswick's fragile economy. New Brunswick would be happy to settle for a compromise-but that word, up to now, has never been a part of K. C. Irving's vocabulary...