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...billion, largely from Japan (though South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong are increasingly important contributors). Last year the U.S. trade deficit with Japan amounted to $1.5 billion, and textiles alone accounted for $504 million. The Nixon Administration has insisted that Japan agree to quotas on all exports of wool and synthetic textiles to this country, and charges that the Japanese refuse to cooperate. The Japanese say that they have offered to restrain shipments of any particular exports that have demonstrably injured U.S. industry...
Payment on a Pledge. For their part, the Japanese argue that they are being pressed for quotas because of a Nixon campaign pledge to the big, old and politically powerful textile industry. During the 1968 campaign, both Nixon and Hubert Humphrey promised protection that would hold back imports of wool and man-made fibers by international agreement, much as cotton textiles have been restricted since 1962. Textiles today are less important to Japan's trade balance than they once were; that country has been switching its export emphasis to costlier and more complex products, like television sets and turbines...
Faithful Eye. The 17th century German hunter was nothing at all like today's typical American sportsman, who tramps through the woods in wool cap and squishy boots, hoping for a lucky shot. Venery was as ritualized as the catechism. A clumsy hunter was publicly chastised by "blading," a ceremony in which he was forced to lie down across a dead stag and receive three swats from the flat of a broad knife. All the hard work was done by the peasants, who erected the high cloth barriers or rope nets into which bear or deer were driven...
Pulling the Wool. Not if much of the public can help it. "The midi is all right in its place, like in a dungeon," muttered Los Angeles Film Maker Michael Huemmer. "It makes women look like tea cosies," said a Chicago housewife. "Instant age," sniffed a Boston fashion writer. "If God wanted women to go around all covered up that way," says Atlanta TV Reporter Tom Loughney, "they'd be born like that." Still, such protests rarely reach farther than across a bar or a park bench. What the midi mania clearly calls for is mass resistance...
...Mutton's daughter-in-law, Cheryl Reventlow). Dues of $20 a year were established, mainly to cover costs of petitions and bumper stickers like the one already being printed in shocking pink and shocking language: UP YOUR MIDI. "We're not going to let them pull the wool over our legs as well as our eyes," says Mrs. Hutner, miniskirt flashing. "Women aren't going to be sheep any more." Sheepishly, L.A. Mayor Sam Yorty agreed to celebrate this week as POOFF week, with booths for petition signing set up in front of the city...