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...produced by Du Pont-continue strong. Du Pont still is suffering because of downturns in clothing sales and the housing slump. Chairman Irving Shapiro has predicted lower fourth-quarter earnings for the chemical giant. The industry, he says, has 30% more capacity than in 1973. Sales of aluminum are brisk, but a Reynolds official says that costs still are not being covered...
...next day's hearing before Judge Bullock was brisk. Again the manacled prisoner was asked whether he had anything to say. Gilmore rose shakily to his feet and made one request: "I understand, your honor, they are planning to seat me in a chair with a hood over my head. I don't want that. I don't want a hood, and I want to be standing...
...Brisk Business. "It took us a while to get known," he says. But business is now brisk; whereas Rare Earth had to sell 20 properties in 1975 to gross $700,000, just three of the ten properties it has sold this year brought in the same amount. Still, profit margins are thin because overhead runs about $5,000 a month. That includes base salaries for Van Haefton and his wife (six other employees work on straight commission), heavy advertising expenses and a lot of travel...
...muddy boots that tramped over damask-covered sofas, of the unrelenting drumroll of breaking crockery and crystal, of bloody Noses, hysterical Women, ram pant gluttony. I have always resented the Contumelies ("rabble," "Mob") heaped on the 20,000 Neighbors who called on me in my new dwelling-place that brisk March day. Yet I freely allow that the shattered windows and ruined Carpets that greeted me when I dared return were enough to make this Old Genl flinch...
Long Johns. Such backwoods garb is actually as old as the hills-and mountains and streams-where the clothes fit in best. Venerable firms like L.L. Bean of Freeport, Me., Eddie Bauer of Seattle and Gokeys of St. Paul have been doing a brisk mail-order business in such gear for 50 years or more. Says Bean's bemused merchandising manager, Fred McCabe: "Fashion has just come round to us. We certainly haven't gone fashionable ourselves...