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...company is still the biggest in the field (1970 sales: $3.6 billion). Du Pont leaders have long dreamed of producing "another nylon," but the company has introduced few notably profitable products in the past decade. Several that did appear turned out to be expensive failures. Corfam, the synthetic leather, is being phased out after an investment of $100 million. Other disappointments: an antiflu pill called Symmetrel and a venture into the production of photo film. Last week the board announced a decline in earnings from $93 million in the first quarter of 1970 to $74 million in the equivalent period...
Bathtub Sofas. "I pick up usable trash," says Hugo Mesa, a commercial designer in Los Angeles. "It's all potential pollution." In his hands, a discarded beer barrel becomes a leather-slung chair, old railroad ties turn into thick benches, tin cans take on new life as lamps. "Salvaged waste has value," agrees George Korper, proprietor of the Eco-Center store in Greenwich, Conn., which sells things like telephone-cable spools as $2 patio tables. Going one better, Mrs. Jerrald Dixon of Crown Point, Ind., makes "Old Woman in the Shoe" table centerpieces with plaster figures and her husband...
...revolution be financed by $200 leather jackets? Why not? After all, if you believe in the revolution, it shouldn't matter where the money comes from. On the other hand, the moral fabric of such an operation feels a little like chintz. But that's probably middle-class folk-purist inverse snobbism...
...easy enough to say what Rags isn't-it isn't Vogue or Harper's Bazaar or Gentleman's Quarterly or the fashion pages of Esquire or Mr. Cavett's wardrobe furnished by J. Press or Joan Kennedy showing up at a White House reception in a tie-dyed leather gauche after threatening for a week to appear in hot pants-it's somewhat more difficult to say exactly what it is. As Rags describes itself...
Last week the Tory government carried its quiet revolution-or counter-revolution-a long step further. In the House of Commons, Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber unlocked the customary faded red leather case embossed with Queen Victoria's monogram, "VR," and produced the new budget. It is an economic program designed to get Britain out of what Barber describes as "the ruts we have been following": an economic growth rate of only 2%, an inflation rate of 8% and rising unemployment that currently has 750,000 Britons out of work. In a two-hour speech that brought Tory...