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...Cotton. The changes are the price of survival for the old leaders. For years the biggest firms made only three standard types of carpets, all of them woolen and all on looms. The grades ranged from a low-price Axminster weave to a more expensive velvet weave, and a Wilton weave, costliest of all. The best wool for these rugs came from China, India and Pakistan. But in 1950 China slapped an embargo on all wool exports; India and Pakistan followed with stiff quotas on shipments, thus cutting off nearly 30% of the best grade of U.S. wool imports. Prices...
Stockly lives in a 2½-acre country place in Wilton, Conn, with his wife and seven-year-old daughter, who wants to be a ballet dancer when she grows up. By the time that happens, says Stockly, he plans to be resting in the countryside, translating some good French novels...
...Wilton, Salisbury, England
...guests and staff tramped aboard his plane. There was his old friend and West Point classmate, General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Ike's Defense Secretary Wilson, Attorney General Herbert Brownell, Major General Wilton B. Persons (ret.); and James Rowley, chief of the White House Secret Service detail. Ike swung up the ladder with a greeting to all hands, and at 5:55 a.m. his Constellation took off. Ten minutes later the press plane followed. Both planes carried double crews...
...Special Assistant: Major General (ret.), Wilton B. ("Jerry") Persons, 52, brother of Alabama's Democratic Governor Gordon Persons and former head of Staunton (Va.) Military Academy. A long time Army spokesman on Capitol Hill and Ike's public-relations adviser at NATO, he will be Ike's liaison man to Congress...