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...paraphrase W. C. Fields, anybody who loves small children can't be all good. The public image aside, Bobby Hull is a pure, all-wool, elemental man, a stogie-chomping, beer-drinking, four-letter guy who said "I do" to a hasty marriage at 18. His second wife, Joanne, is a onetime figure skater; in eight years of boisterously happy marriage, the two of them have worked up a boffo routine. He comes home growling like a bear. She roars back...
Denmark devalued less than Britain: 7.9%. It was a half measure intended to help Danish farmers keep their vital outlets for butter and bacon in Britain while penalizing its much larger but import-dependent industries as little as possible. New Zealand, with its whole economy already weakened by falling wool prices, devalued 19.45%. Ceylon devalued 20%, and at week's end tiny Iceland took the biggest...
...such a beautiful color for winter," says French Vogue Editor Francoise de Langlade de La Renta. "So warm, so wonderful against a tanned skin." In Rome, after her trip to Cambodia and Thailand, Jacqueline Kennedy promptly placed an order with her favorite Italian designer, Valentino. Her choice: a wool crepe Mao shirt and matching skirt in midi length that reaches down to the middle of her calf, in brown...
...sheepman of sorts, I must comment on your suggestion that Bobby Kennedy may resemble a sheep [Oct. 27]. Sheep breeders have known for some time that open-faced sheep are more productive than those with wool over their eyes. Indeed, Bobby might be more useful if he could see more clearly. KEITH INSKEEP Morgantown...
Flipping Mattresses. Because of massive welfare spending and strike-happy labor unions that demand ever higher wages, Uruguay constantly skirts the edge of bankruptcy. This year, partly as a result of unusually poor production of wool and beef, its two biggest foreign-exchange earners, the country has gone into hock abroad to the tune of $438 million, and gold reserves have tumbled to $146 million. Since January, the cost of living has leaped...