Word: cobblers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more important source of private income comes from refurbishing such shoddily mass-produced essentials as clothes, shoes and furniture. One of the wealthiest men in Moscow is an expert cobbler who specializes in fixing boots botched in the cooperative repair shop and, complained one Moscow newspaper, can afford to fly all 19 members of his household down to a Black Sea resort every summer. A good dressmaker lives equally well, can pick and choose her customers, and takes only those with the best references-and the most money. Minor house repairs are another lucrative source of private income: a Literaturnaya...
...from typical, may contain clues, for the observant gerontologist, to the secret of a long and useful existence. The first factor in Stagg's favor-though not to the same degree as in the case of some of his near peers-is heredity. Stagg's father, a cobbler who lived in West Orange, N.J., lived to be 73, his mother...
High-Class Haggling. But Dr. Cross had bigger game in mind. Earlier in the year, while dickering for fragments on behalf of Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary with the Syrian cobbler Kando, who is unofficial middleman between the Bedouins and the scholars, Cross and his fellow scholars had been offered an exceptionally large piece from Cave 4 for $12,000. An old hand at the Bedouin bargaining table, the scholars began making counteroffers. Finally, last summer, during the height of the Middle East crisis, Cross and Jordanian Curator Yusuf Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum sat down with Kando...
Zuckmayer's true tale springs from the celebrated saga of Wilhelm Voigt, a turn-of-the-century cobbler who lived near Koepenick, a little town eight miles from
...government wants to abolish this system, keep all the manuscripts in the country but still get the money, either for the Bedouins or for itself. While negotiations are going on, scholars of the Scrollery suffer from a recurrent nightmare: that the Bedouins may stop bringing their finds to the cobbler shop of Khalil Iskander, and take them to a black market instead (no more than three or four small fragments have so far turned up for private sale by antique dealers around the world...