Word: wool
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Steel Wool for Measles
...particularly striking example of the omnipresent hoard called the press was the Muskie tour of the Manchester shoe factory. The smiling Maine Senator, dressed in his gray wool body-fitting suit, weaved his way through huge barricades of incomplete shoes to shake hands with the factory workers. The press, about 50 of them, invaded the building chasing Muskie down aisles, questioning workers about their opinions, and cutting off the campaign team to get local-color pictures of Muskie with the workers...
After the Norman conquest, Winchester maintained its historical distinction. William the Conqueror sat in state at the Winchester Castle every Easter. As the first center of the wool trade, the city gained in commercial importance. Early 12th century marked the apex of its prosperity, but as London eclipsed Winchester as a legislative and commercial focus, the city's political and industrial stature declined. Still, in 1971, Winchester is a lovely city of 30,000 inhabitants, and one of England's most historical and oldest Cathedral cities. As such, it is ideal for a comprehensive archeological study of urban advancement...
Whoever wins the election will face an uphill battle to turn the nation's sluggish economy around. In the mid-1950s, world demands for Uruguay's two major exports, wool and beef, fell off sharply. Since then, inflation has soared 9,000%. Between 1956 and 1968, the country's gross national product fell 15%. Its social welfare programs, once a model for the world (by 1915, Uruguay had instituted the eight-hour day, free medical service and compulsory education), have bogged down in a lumbering bureaucracy. A quarter of Uruguay's 1,000,000-member work...
...been the story of his own life." A French journalist and editor of Paris-Match, Galante gleaned a wealth of new detail on the "intimate Malraux" from 30 interviews with the former Culture Minister. He relates, for example, that the sartorially elegant Malraux buys his blue serge and black wool-twist suits at Lanvin and that he dines frequently at an exclusive Paris restaurant, Lasserre, on hearts of palm, grilled steak and an orange filled with sherbet...