Word: viyella
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...more, or wanting, or discriminated against, and hence that everyone is able to make significant choices about the conduct of his life. "For what may have been the first time in history," he says, "the masses were expected to decide questions of an aesthetic nature: wing tips or sneakers? Viyella or lamb's wool? peas or lima beans? colonial or ranch? Mustang or Vega?" If the ills of our society are completely out of our control, and if we all have limitless options individually, we can all become, as Hougan wants, nobly narcissistic...
...reasons for the improvement in Britain's balance of trade is the invasion of British business by U.S. businessmen. Few Britons would agree with that statement. But one who does-and is preaching it to anyone who will listen-is Joe Hyman, whose Viyella International Ltd. has grown into one of Britain's largest textile groups and most active exporters...
Hyman also argues that U.S. companies and Stateside banks, which presently hold 14% of all British deposits, act as a spur to make Britons perform better themselves. A hard-driving industrialist who makes all of Viyella's management decisions, he is particularly impressed by American marketing and productivity. "American businesses in Britain work back from the marketplace and simplify their plants," he says. "British businesses, through excessive product proliferation, are far less rational in their factories...
...wealthy and aristocratic American rises from a bed furnished with Irish linen sheets, brushes his hair with English bristle hair brushes, dons a Viyella shirt and Savile Row suit, brightens his outfit with a Carnaby Street tie, and goes down to a breakfast enlivened by English marmalade or Greek honey...
...because if a chap didn't know a job was going he wouldn't be the right sort of chap, would he?" The most startling changes have been wrought on boards where the Old Boy influence was strongest. Old-school-tie companies both, the Rank Organization and Viyella International have been dramatically improved recently by men who never set foot inside the Establishment: John Henry Davis at Rank, Joe Hyman at Viyella...