Word: vicuna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...textilemen are having rough going, she thinks the worst is over as far as Stroock's is concerned. Profits dropped 11% in its last fiscal year, but for this fall sales were 73% above last year - at least partly because of her plugging of Stroock's famed vicuna, kashmir, llama, alpaca and other exotic fabrics. Explains Mrs. Murphy: "We haven't invented any new animals. We've just made the old ones popular by hard work...
Sunburn & Archeology. Despite Mexico City's thin air and his back-breaking schedule, the President seemed to enjoy his furlough from Washington immensely. He returned the "Vivas!" of street crowds, shook hands untiringly at dinners and parties, slept well under a robe of vicuna pelts at the embassy, got up as early as usual. On his last day he went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological...