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...about 3 million people are receiving the minimum wage; by 1981 that figure should increase to an estimated 5 million. Most of those in the lowest pay categories work at less skilled jobs such as retail clerks, bellhops and receptionists, in addition to manufacturing in some Southern textile and apparel plants...
...outmoded platform shoes; garnish with a sissy's voice and a drag queen's propensities. Serve in a Toronto beauty salon. Now take one long-haired schizo on the lam from the local loony bin, throw in a few touches of outward normalcy--a good eye for fashionable apparel, decidedly hetero leanings, and a good old-fashioned motherly instinct--and dash with an urge to write whacked-out tales for her beloved fellow "crazies" in a bulky ledger. Mix the two together and what do you get? Creme de la Outrageous!, of course...
...Hotels/Motels: fair. Luxury hotel Port Marina at airport, five within five miles. Amenities: improving. Comfortable, attractive lounges. Each terminal has four snack bars, one open 24 hr. Best restaurant: the Seafood Bar in American terminal (Gulf oysters, $2.50). Airport has 17 bars open until 2 a.m. Shopping: Texas souvenirs, apparel and toy shops. Beauty salons, barbershops. Airport clinic open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; after that, emergencies handled by ambulance service. Overall: gargantuan, but less awesome when you learn your way around...
Like a child torn by a parental custody fight, Genesco, the sprawling retail and apparel concern, rocked back and forth for years in a war for control between two strong-willed personalities: W. Maxey Jarman and his son Franklin. In the end both lost. Four years ago, Franklin, now 45, ousted his father as company head and set about stripping Genesco of unprofitable businesses that Maxey had acquired in an unsuccessful attempt to expand sales to $2 billion a year. (They are about half that now.) Then, last week, Franklin himself was bounced in a coup organized over...
Then there are cards from my dog to your dog, cards that hint at homosexuality ("Don we now our gay apparel" no longer means what it did in Christmases past), even a card for my friends who are pot smokers showing a marijuana plant. Feminists may send "winter solstice" cards instead of Christmas cards. Offered by the Page One bookstore in Pasadena, Calif., the cards feature mother earth themes to counter Christianity, which some feminists regard as oppressive to women...