Word: vicuna
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...SHOKAY: It's a little known fact, but yak undercoats actually rival cashmere, alpaca and vicuna for softness. And though yak fiber is almost exclusively used by Tibetan nomads at present, that may change if a group of young Harvard grads succeeds in raising the material's profile. Their vehicle is Shokay, a brand of scarves, throws and knitting yarns made from yak fiber sourced from poor Tibetan herder communities. A portion of the profits goes back to the herders to fund health, education and other development projects. Stay warm, and do good, by visiting shokay.com. The site lists...
...Loon Mountain's proposed expansion "falls into that category." It is mildly ironic that one of the founders of the Loon Mountain resort is Sununu's political idol, Sherman Adams, Dwight Eisenhower's former special assistant, who was forced to resign that position in 1958 because he accepted a vicuna coat and other gifts from a Boston industrialist...
...faith in his top aide. At best, Sununu has embarrassed himself and his boss. At worst, he might even share the fate of his idol Sherman Adams, the New Hampshire Governor who was forced out as Dwight Eisenhower's chief of staff in 1958 after accepting a $500 vicuna coat from Bernard Goldfine, a Boston textile magnate...
...McCrary, with Safire in tow, rushed to Washington to advise industrialist Bernard Goldfine how to contain the scandal over his gift of a vicuna coat to Sherman Adams, Eisenhower's chief of staff. As McCrary tells it, Safire crawled across an outside window ledge on an upper floor of the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel to nab an assistant to columnist Drew Pearson and a congressional investigator bugging Goldfine's room...
Writer of Letitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to Executive Manners, she said that former President John F. Kennedy '40 taught her a lesson in government etiquette. When she brought a gift from a foreign official of a vicuna coat to Kennedy, the president insisted that she return the coat immediately, Baldrige said...