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...many knots in wool yarn as you have warts, place the yarn under a rock, by the time the yarn rots away, so do your warts...
...started with several hats and "one dress, but a tasteful dress." added sweaters, and within five years had made Maison Chanel a fashion house to reckon with. Coco introduced the tricot sailor frock and the pullover sweater, unearthed wool jersey from its longtime service as underwear fabric and put it to use in soft, clinging dresses. She ushered in gypsy skirts, embroidered silk blouses and accompanying shawls. Even then, Chanel clothes were as high-priced as any Paris couturier's; but only Chanel delighted in having her styles copied -and made accessible at low cost to millions...
...Mademoiselle Chanel has reigned over fashion," mused Jean Cocteau some time ago, "it is not because she cut women's hair, married silk and wool, put pearls on sweaters, avoided poetic labels on her perfumes, lowered the waistline or raised the waistline and obliged women to follow her directives; it is because-outside of this gracious and robust dictatorship-there is nothin» in her era that she has missed...
Holes in the Ceiling. As usual, Congress did not forget the farmers. The lawmakers approved a three-year price-support law for wool, wheat, feed grains and cotton that will cost taxpayers just about what farm support costs them now -approximately $3.8 billion annually. For the first time Congress placed a limit, $55,000, on the amount of subsidy that a farmer may receive per crop. But that ceiling affects only about 1,100 of the nation's 3,000,000 farmers -among them, Senator James O. Eastland, who collected $146,792 during 1969 for his cotton plantation...
...Then, the second question I wanted to ask Mr. Pattakos is, here in the mountains of Northern Greece we are surrounded by sheep. The quality of both the wool and the meat seems excellent. Could you tell me what the present government is doing to improve the exports of these two commodities...