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...with slightly sleeker styling and trendy materials like black patent leather, the shoes have increased in sales 30% during each of the past three years. This year Birkenstock Footprint Sandals expects a 40% increase, to about 1.4 million pairs. They are still made with layers of suede, jute and cork, with the sole contoured to the natural shape of the foot and a shock-absorbent foot bed. Prices range from $50 to $130 for adult sizes...
Screenplay by John Cork...
...George Bachrach, Democratic activist: "Weld is a cork floating in John Silber's ocean. He had no control over this race. It was all John Silber."--Nov. 8 in the Boston Globe...
Leifer talks "for better or worse, about my personal experiences. I have a new joke about going out to dinner. You know, you order a bottle of wine, and they give you the cork? I feel like a jerk, sitting there sniffing and going, 'Yep, that's cork.' I said that to a waiter and he laughed. I thought, Gee, maybe I should try that...
...City master builder Robert Moses. The Power Broker is an obligatory book for understanding modern urban politics. In turning to L.B.J., Caro shifted his focus from how New York City works to what makes the nation run. The answer is not surprising. As Franklin Roosevelt's factotum Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran responded when Caro asked how the young L.B.J. gained power, "Money, kid. But you'll never be able to write about...