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...Shoes & the Sunset. In Elgin, Ill., rummaging for a pair of red shoes at a dollar-day counter, Sherida Weber spotted a single shoe, saw its mate in the hand of another customer, refused to part with hers, camped near her opponent for five hours until, just before closing time, she agreed to a coin toss, lost, impulsively bought ten pairs of assorted styles...
...Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship for study at a university in one of the British Commonwealth nations went to Donald R. Spuehler '56 of Kirkland House and Elgin...
Also, Illinois: James C. Beck of Kirkland and Chicago; Alan S. Gratch of Leverett and Chicago; Richard M. Rosenberg of Winthrop and Chicago; and Donald R. Spuehler of Kirkland and Elgin; Iowa: Jack J. Stiffler of Adams and Mitchellville; Kansas: Karl G. Heider of Winthrop and Lawrence and Cliff F. Thompson of Lowell and Kansas City; Maine: James F. Armstrong of Dunster and Wilton and Bruce F. Cameron of Kirkland and Bristol...
Donald Roy Spuehler of Kirkland House and Elgin, Illinois has won the Knox Fellowship, which was established in 1948 in memory of the former secretary of the Navy. Spuehler is president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra...
...looks. For purely economic reasons, U.S. industry has been doing a great deal of dispersing on its own. In the past year alone, the chance to save on shipping costs to the booming West Coast market caused more than 35 national firms in the East and Midwest, e.g., Elgin, Borg-Warner, to set up branches in the Southern California area. The need for sufficient labor at reasonable wages has forced many other corporations out of heavily industrialized regions into rural areas. Cleveland's Clevite Corp. (bearings and bushings), which has decentralized into eleven plants in the past ten years...