Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lace and carriages, mirrors and staircases (the last two, familiar obsessions from other Losey films). Leo Colston (Dominic Guard) is a twelve-year-old schoolboy come to pass a luxurious summer holiday with a wealthy classmate. Leo is more than a little out of place. He swelters in his woolen Norfolk jacket until his friend's elder sister Marian (Julie Christie) volunteers to take him into town and buy him more suitable clothes. She is fond of the boy, but she is careful to cultivate him too. Soon he is carrying messages to her lover, a Laurentian farmer named...
...total U.S. textile sales, but they have been heavily concentrated in certain segments of the market. Japanese sweaters and woolen fabrics increasingly infiltrate the U.S. market, and imports of man-made fibers from the Far East soared 75% in the first two months of this year; probably a third came from Japan...
...Robert Frost's home town should look like, You find little more than a post office, a phone booth and a combination gas station and general store dealing in two-for-a-penny-candy, dusty bottles of aspirin, applejack, Vermont cheese (kept under the moldy wooden bowl, and cheap), woolen socks, fishing tackle, and peanuts from a chipped enamel peanut roaster apparently left over from the Big-Top Circus days...
Miyazawa will offer a one-year freeze, at 1969 levels, on imports of 20 categories of textiles, including woolen suits and sweaters and synthetic dresses and blouses. After that, the two countries would try negotiating again, through the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Miyazawa's plan is close to one proposed in March by PepsiCo President Donald Kendall, who headed a high-level delegation of U.S. businessmen in talks with Japanese industrialists and government officials. The Kendall plan was considered negotiable by diplomats of both governments, but was summarily rejected by both textile industries. Now the Japanese appear...