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...will sell for as much as $2,000 each. This means that the first mable coats, made up of some 50 skins, will cost $150,000 or more. Piampiano hopes that his partners will produce 35,000 pelts in 1970 and eventually reach 100,000 pelts annually-hardly a dent in the 7,000,000 mink skins on the U.S. market last year, but enough to bring the price per coat down to a less incredible...
...Berenson, 29, the son of a Regina, Sask., fireman, had all the makings of a top scorer. He learned his swift and violent trade as a boy, skating on the frozen ponds of his home town, but like many young pros, he had found it hard to make a dent in the talent-heavy NHL. As a teenager, he turned down several pro offers in order to earn a degree in business at the University of Michigan, where he was an All-America hockey player. Belatedly he joined the pros in 1962 and spent the next seven years...
...monetary policy than the Democrats have done. He also aims to hold back federal spending on social programs by giving rather modest tax breaks and other incentives to private businessmen who hire and train the hard-core unemployed. Though many businessmen still doubt whether they can do more than dent the problem, the National Alliance of Businessmen this year got off to a good start by persuading 12,000 employers to hire 84,000 hard-core jobless people and to train many of them for productive work...
...title is a jawbreaker, his functions well masked from the general public. Yet when Harvard Political Scientist Henry Alfred Kissinger assumes the role of Assistant to the Presi dent for National Security Affairs, operating out of the Situation Room in the White House basement, he will automatically become one of the most important...
...report that protesters were dumping trash baskets into the street. The officer snapped: "Listen, you goddam - -, get this - car out of here." When the doctor tried to explain, the cop shouted: "Listen, you son of a bitch, didn't you hear me the first time?" and pounded a dent in the doctor's car with his nightstick...