Word: traded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Harold Wilson introduced his controversial wage-price freeze in July, his worst fear was that the move might alienate the chief source of his government's strength: the unions. So, as the powerful Trade Union Congress convened in Blackpool last week, the Prime Minister put his case to the delegates...
...trade between the two countries has not been resumed. Denied access to Pakistani suppliers, Calcutta's jute mills have been forced to reduce output 25% , while some Dacca cigarette factories have closed down completely because no tobacco is being imported from West Bengal. Travel between the two countries is almost nonexistent, postal and telegraph communications operate far below standard, and rail, road and river traffic is severely curtailed in both nations. India and Pakistan may not be actively at war, but they are not at peace either...
...reminisce. In Quant by Quant, a precocious autobiography, she gaily details the way she broke into hot couture with her husband and business manager, Alexander Plunket Greene. "We were mad; the whole thing was hysterical," writes Mary, recalling the opening of their famous Bazaar shop in Chelsea. "The trade ignored us, they laughed at us openly." But she gives high fashion the needle right back. Mary observes happily: "Quite a number of the women who are awarded the annual title of 'best dressed women' are square...
...even more than spurring trade, Rumania was out to further establish its independence of Moscow and the new frontiers opening up in Europe. As Bucharest Foreign Minister Corneliu Manescu told the Greeks last week: "We are not influenced by the fact that Greece belongs to NATO and we to the Warsaw Pact. We are making efforts to reach an understanding with other nations, regardless of our position in the Warsaw Pact...
From Kooky to Effortless. Americans do still, of course, buy European haute couture. Their purchases account for 40% of the trade in the Paris couture houses. Since an original Balenciaga ball gown can cost $12,000, or a Chanel suit $2,200, pacesetters such as Mrs. William Paley and Jackie Kennedy also snap up the "line-for-line" copies available in the U.S. Manhattan Socialite Mrs. John Converse happily admits, "I love Ohrbach copies." She also likes American designers like Bill Blass and Mainbocher. Nowadays, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. Loel Guinness and Mrs. Jeanne Murray Vanderbilt shop on both...