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Members of the group, which maintains offices in New York and Moscow, have been battered by both the recession and trade sanctions. A French subsidiary of one member, Dresser Industries, was penalized for delivering giant compressors for the Euro-Soviet pipeline. Caterpillar Tractor Co., another member, lost millions of dollars in orders...
...Rooney's reliance upon certain themes that soon lose their freshness. "I've got to throw out some clothes," one essay begins, and throughout the book. Rooney's sartorial habits receive much attention. "Seek and thou shall find," he writes adding later. "Not in the bottom drawer of my dresser you won't find." Other essays describe his "unmatched socks," "seventeen shirts," and "worn shoelaces," "Hangers" include this piece of advice...
There, things go awry by going modern. Rooney is the biographer of basements, the cataloguer of dresser drawers, and memorializer of saved string. His loyalty extends in many directions: to his overstuffed, imperfect house ("I like it about fifty percent more than I did when the bank owned part of it"); to his clothes (many of his 19 socks do not match) and even to memory loss ("My favorite color is dark green, but I forget why"). Rooney has a misplaced fealty to conglomerated America as well. "If the bank doesn't know me by name," he writes...
Pearson says he is not a normal Playboy model and adds that he is not even known as a "fancy dresser." "I was shocked that I could be in a fashion magazine," he said...
...French were clearly spoiling for a showdown. President François Mitterand's government had on Aug. 10 warned the four French-based pipeline suppliers that they would be "requisitioned" if they bowed to U.S. pressure. Last week Dresser-France was told that it would be the first to be taken over because its Soviet contracts called for the earliest delivery of equipment. Complained John James, chairman of the Texas parent firm, which lost an eleventh-hour battle to block...