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...assess the impact of the front, TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof visited Bradford, a sooty Yorkshire mill town that once was known as "the wool center of the world." Bradford is typical of declining industrial cities with a growing race problem, and pro-front sentiment is strong. Amfitheatrofs report...
DIED. Carleton King, 73, New York Congressman who represented fashionable Saratoga Springs (1960-74); following surgery; in Bradenton, Fla. A conservative from a district he described as "died-in-the-wool Republican," he called for an across-the-board income tax of at least 25% and endorsed phone tapping in the interests of national security. "I think it's high time some people were watched," he once said in response to criticism of J. Edgar Hoover...
...grew into a beautiful young woman who enjoyed playing one boy off against another. In 1948 Anne, 19, eloped with Alfred ("Kayo") Sexton, a 20-year-old college student ("Dearest Momie and Daddie-I don't know how to begin this letter"). By 1957 Kayo was a traveling wool salesman and Anne had two young daughters and a bad case of the housewife blues...
Since midsummer, a nationwide shortage of insulation, fiber glass and rock wool, has turned the fuel conservation plans of tens of thousands of other Americans into near-impossible dreams. Fiber glass today no longer comes only in the familiar batts (rolls) tacked up between wall and ceiling joists; it has also largely replaced rock wool as the preferred fluffy insulation material blown into wall spaces...
...like he fooled everybody, just pulled the damn wool over their eyes. I mean there's that first win at Columbia, which occurred so early that nobody can even remember...