Word: weaver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years past, there had been 14,500 different tones of wool for the weaver to choose from. Lurçat cut the cumbersome number down to 41 kinds of wool and 13 colors. Unlike most other designers, he does not bother with small preliminary sketches, but attacks the work directly. "Like a surgeon approaching a delicate brain operation," says he, "I have it all in mind." It takes a skilled weaver about a month to produce one square yard of tapestry, which may sell for as much as $400-or, in Lurçat's case...
...less a virtue of the current production that Eric Berry's robustly nimble and resourceful Falstaff is by all odds the play's best-acted role. Donald Madden's Hotspur is properly dynamic too, though it substitutes mere energy for fire and dash. As Henry, Fritz Weaver makes a well-spoken tapestry King; only the Hal falls short, from too metronomic a speech and schoolboy...
...boasts the top man in the $15 billion-a-year textile industry: North Carolina's young-looking, wiry (5 ft. 10 in., 143 Ibs.) J. Spencer Love, 63, who sewed up a bunch of middling mills into one efficient producer called Burlington Industries, world's biggest weaver. By bringing in modern machinery and management and gambling heavily on the wonder synthetics, Spencer Love boosted Burlington's sales from $651 million in fiscal 1958 to $805 million in 1959; in fiscal 1960's first half (ending March 31) profits will almost double, to about $17.5 million. More...
...Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Third from the Sun, by Rod Serling,concerns two families who try to escape society on a space ship. With Fritz Weaver...