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...United States set up an informal economic blockade, choking off normal lines of credit in all sectors but the military. The lack of credit and workers's demands for wages created shortages in the goods upper and middle class Chileans demanded: beef, wool, radios, cameras, machine parts...
...prepared for it by modern art. The Flag Gate, found in Jefferson County, N.Y., with its wavy battens of red-painted wood delicately mimicking the ripple of fabric stripes in a breeze, inevitably suggests Jasper Johns' flag paintings, but that is only an accident. Likewise, a deliciously anthropomorphic wool winder (see cut), with a human head and the hub of a decorated worm gear for its belly button, predicts the surreal wooden constructions of H.C. Westermann. And then there are the quilts. The best products of America's 19th century women quilt makers anticipate many of the formal...
...good manners, honor and duty, some stern dictums from his parents ("Thank God every day for what you've been given . . . don't feel sorry for yourself . . . admit your mistakes, you'll only get back what you give"), and something else. Head down in his wool scarf, puffing steam in the cold, he recalled what he saw in the first months in Nixon's White House, when the seeds of today's disaster were sown. "All those people were running around with their vulnerable egos, more interested in their power than in governing," he said...
...that after having spent a good deal of money on warm winter clothing, the American public complains when they find out that they will have to wear it this year. All along, stores, houses, schools, etc., have been kept far too warm in the winter for anyone to wear wool without being miserably uncomfortable; yet in the summer a person cannot enter a public place without donning a sweater to keep from turning blue...
Taking advantage of the bargains, Japanese and other foreign buyers bought up 40% of the U.S. wool output, as well as most of Australia's production. Now double knits have become less popular; but wool is tight, and wool prices are climbing...