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...just as certainly, is being driven northward to meet responsibilities it has shrugged off for generations. The two old foes of two decades ago already share some surprising ties. In twelve years, Australia's exports to Japan quadrupled, and the Japanese are the second largest customers for Australian wool. Australia's Prime Minister Harold Holt admits that his concept of relations with Asia has undergone great change, and frankly credits it to "the marriage of our own raw material and primary production to Japan's enormous industrial potential...
...main thing about a Parisian mini-Shetland is not its downy wool or its colors, which range from black to brilliant to pastel, but its size. No blooming French lassy, no matter what her measurements, will wear anything larger than a size designed for a 12-year-old child. The effect is that old-fashioned look of the sweatered pinup girl, with une petite différence, s'il vous plaît. To fit properly, the long-sleeved mini-Shetlands should not quite reach to the wrists. This summer, the waist was high enough to leave a patch...
...account of how President Kennedy personally selected the pink wool suit that Jackie wore that day in Dallas because, according to the New York Daily News, he wanted to make sure she would show up "the cheap Texas broads...
...veteran of six yacht crossings of the Atlantic-as a novice in 1960 he won the first transatlantic race-Chichester set out last August on an even more perilous journey. Lured by the prospect of traveling the route of the 19th century wool and tea clippers, Chichester embarked on a 14,000-mile trip from England to Australia, around South Africa and the Cape of Good Hope. Then a jaunty 64 years of age, the wiry, bespectacled mariner was, as he has ever been, by himself-this time in a 53-ft. yacht, Gipsy Moth...
...kidding. Grosvenor Town Coats for the modern man? The fabulous Navy Blue Cashmere Blazer at Howdy's Beefburger Drive-In? A Shaggy Pullover of Finest Shetland Island Wool at a Stones concert? So into the breach steps Mod. "Like, it just happens to correspond to my thought patterns," says Larry, "you know, the way I think...