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...Stans has warned that continued rapid growth of Asian textile imports in the 1970s could wipe out the jobs of 600,000 U.S. textile workers, including many undereducated laborers in Southern towns. On the other hand, efficient U.S. textile companies have managed to prosper in spite of import competition. Burlington Industries, Cannon Mills and J. P. Stevens & Co. have steadily increased sales and profits...
Idea Gambler. Notebook got out of the ghetto because (briefly) it had a sponsor, Burlington Industries. When the Burlington people saw a preview of Notebook, complete with Bacchic frenzies and the ghostly prowl of transvestites in the night-shrouded Colosseum, they dropped the option even though it was too late for NBC to change the schedule. Notebook's love affair with Imperial Rome resulted from the fact that Director Federico Fellini made it while at work on a movie based on the bawdy remnants of Petronius' Satyricon. His declared intention in making the TV film was to portray...
...Burlington, Vt., police spotted the missing blue Volkswagen in a local garage. The owner said that it had been left by a man named Costa, who told him that he would park it there for a month. When police questioned Antone Costa about the car, he produced a bill of sale, purportedly drawn up by Patricia Walsh. He was kept under surveillance, and last week the wanderer -who sports a neatly trimmed mustache, sideburns and "granny" glasses -was arrested in Boston. He was taken to Provincetown district court, where he pleaded innocent to the charge of murdering the two Rhode...
Most of the farmland community of Crete, Neb., was asleep last month when 19 cars of a Burlington freight train jumped track on the outskirts of town...
...mollified labor by agreeing to eliminate 4,511 excess employees by attrition over several years rather than dismissal. The chief executives of the carriers gathered in Manhattan to sign the consolidation papers last May. But only hours before they were to complete the formalities that would have created the Burlington Northern, Chief Justice Earl Warren abruptly halted the merger at the Justice Department's request...