Word: leatherizing
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...been spent on houses alone. Gourin's biggest and finest grocery belongs to an Américain, as do one of the town's three trucking businesses, a camera shop and a large clothing store. Attracted perhaps by Gourin's American-inspired affluence, a leather-goods manufacturer is building a factory there. "Gourin's answer to General Motors," grins Mayor Emile Le Gall...
...Stuttgart, especially when he turned up at rehearsals one day wearing curlers.) His favorite picture is a closeup of his head which looks like Simba the lion in repose. A restless creature, he roams the streets late at night looking like some shabby fugitive, in his black wrap-around leather coat and Dutch-boy cap. Three or four nights a week he drops in at a private, after-hours Soho club called the Ad Lib, where he twists along with such fellow members as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Nobody laughs at anybody's hair there...
...Irving Kriesberg, 46, painter of limerick nonsense images: "It is like lithography-an image is reproduced economically, yet retains the force of originality." Pop Painter Marjorie Strider, 33, used unemotional sewing and deliberate placement of swatches to show a gap-jawed vampire starlet. Richard Lindner blended silk, satin, and leather to stitch together a sensual mix of sultriness and toughness in his portrait of a fiery sorcerer. Larry Rivers spent as much time reproducing his Dutch Masters on a banner as he did painting it. Cheerful, colorful, and casually breezy, they can make a show, or a stroll down...
Most important, the development of leather substitutes has shaken up the hidebound industry, opening new prospects in automation and styling. Though Du Pont's new synthetic, Corfam, has conquered less than 1% of the market so far. 79 major shoemakers are using it and Du Pont is struggling to keep up with demand. The company predicts that out of a total of 650 million shoes sold this year, up to 7,000,000 will be made of Corfam, hopes that the synthetic will stimulate U.S. shoe sales much as nylon increased U.S. clothing sales...
...Pont cut some Corfam prices two weeks ago by 10% to 15%-or about 150 to 300 for each pair of shoes-and will cut further as production rises. Corfam shoes now sell for just about the same price as comparable leather shoes. Several of Du Pont's archcompetitors are trying to crack the Corfam formula. Secretly and intently Union Carbide, B.F. Goodrich, US Rubber and other companies are developing their own synthetics for the changing shoe industry...