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...quip. If one drives east from the Delaware River on an apple-crisp autumn afternoon, a landscape of cornfields, horse farms and wooded hills unrolls from the horizon. There is not a chemical factory or oil refinery in sight. Oh, oh, wait a minute. On the outskirts of Flemington, a picturesque village of Victorian homes and red-brick buildings, a sign proclaims, FACTORY LUGGAGE OUTLET -- BRAND NAMES AT BIG SAVINGS! Something decidedly unbucolic is going on out here...
...impression is confirmed a few moments later in the snarled traffic on Flemington's tree-shaded Main Street. People stream along the sidewalks and across the street carrying plastic bags emblazoned with pricey logos: ADIDAS, CALVIN KLEIN, VILLEROY & BOCH. Just who, a gridlocked visitor wonders, would come to rural Flemington, N.J., to buy such chic cityside items as Waterford crystal or Joan & David shoes? The answer: a growing legion of well-heeled devotees of factory-outlet shopping...
DIED. Richard de Rochemont, 78, executive producer of 'The March of Time," for 17 years the most popular documentary film series in the U.S.; of kidney failure and pneumonia; in Flemington, N.J. De Rochemont was credited with some of M.O.T.'s most memorable films, including The Story of the Vatican, the first full-length feature on the papal state made with the sanction of the Holy...
...lavatory, blowing a hole about 4 ft. wide in the side of the aircraft. The undaunted posse of passengers and crew members began battering the hijackers while the pilot struggled to gain control of the plummeting aircraft. "There was a lot of blood and screaming," W.J. Gunther of Flemington, N.J., remembered later. "It was like the French Revolution, and everyone was trying...
...state and local levels. The number of female state legislators has virtually doubled since 1971, to 685. There are 90 women mayors of American cities that have populations of more than 10,000. Nearly half-six of 13 members-of the Minneapolis city council is now female. In tiny Flemington, Ga., every municipal office is held by a woman. Says Betty Friedan: "Women have gained enormously over the last 15 years. We have broken through the barriers, and it is more than just tokenism...