Word: garments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like most South Africans, regardless of color and social status, Clive Haupt was stirred by Louis Washkansky's heart transplant. When Washkansky died, Garment Worker Haupt, 24, said to a neighbor: "I hope the next transplant succeeds." If the statement was obvious and unremarkable then, it soon gained poignancy. For the next transplant involved Haupt's own heart...
...Miniskirts may be cute on the campus and boisterous at the beach, but your cover article [Dec. 1] omits that spot where they are truly most appealing: the garment industry's pocketbook. What could be sweeter than taking an ordinary skirt, cutting it into three pieces, and then selling each piece for twice as much as the original...
...dresses into a fitting room, emerge wearing all of them, one over the other, and march right out of the store. Others employ such traditional equipment as the "booster box"-a gift-wrapped package with a spring-loaded trap opening-or the "Harpo Marx" coat, a shapeless, voluminous outer garment that, inside, is a marvel of deep pockets and handy hooks...
That U.S. life has changed dramatically for the better in the past half-century is a commonplace. But some of the statistics that emerge when 1917 is compared with 1967 present a startling contrast. In the period before World War I, the garment industry was emerging from the era of the seven-day week and the $5 weekly paycheck. Today, Muzak competes with the whir of machines, and the average worker gets $2.60 an hour for a 35-hour week. The improvement is reflected throughout industry. Before World War I, the average American factory worker earned the equivalent in today...
...garment of motion...