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...Bronx childhood, spent under the thumb of a domineering mother. Like many designers, little Calvin began sewing as a tyke and was impatient with school. After a couple of dead-end apprenticeships, his future dawned with the opening of an elevator door. In 1968 he had a tiny garment-district office when a Bonwit Teller executive on his way to another floor glimpsed some coats. He ordered his assistant out of the elevator to check them out. Soon the young designer was the star of the store's young line...
Obsession contains a wealth of fascinating shop talk about the garment industry: endlessly fluctuating deals, shifting alliances and enmities, financial escapades of the riskiest sort. Klein has endured his share of rough times, especially when, with the help of Michael Milken, he issued some junk bonds. Only the generosity of Klein's billionaire friend David Geffen -- a $50 million investment in 1992 -- kept the firm afloat...
Muzaffar Chishti, director of the Immigration Project for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, tried to explain cultural resistance to immigration...
...staying in control. While some of his fellow musicians smoked marijuana or snorted stronger drugs, the future chairman of the Federal Reserve Board kept track of the band's money. "Some people used to complain that the band was smoking these funny hand-rolled cigarettes," recalls Washington lawyer Leonard Garment, another sober-sided member of the touring ensemble. "But Alan was clean as Clark Kent: he handled the books and never ran a deficit...
Spokespeople from seven groups presented ninegrant proposals at the meeting, one of sixmeetings for the purpose this year. One student,Jennifer Ching '96, filed three proposals. Sherequested money for Harvard World Model U.N., theNational Garment Workers Justice Campaign and theAsian American Association...