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...units that had been put into service to relieve overcrowding in cells. Just as that uprising began to subside, 200 convicts in the maximum-security prison at Marquette, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, started another sympathy riot. They set their vocational school on fire, as well as a garment factory and store. Fourteen inmates and eight guards were injured before gun squads could restore order. Total damage in all three prisons was estimated at roughly $10 million...
...Industries, Inc., which is partly controlled by Heinrich and Giinter Rohm of the German firm, employs about 200 people to do that kind of assembly work at a shabby white concrete building in the garment district of northwest Miami. The cheap alloy frame is smoothed with a file and then placed on an assembly line where the barrel and German parts are inserted. Then the metal is tinted a dark blue. RG Industries last year sold 190,000 such weapons, making it the nation's fifth largest handgun producer...
Using his laboratory expertise, Bjorn-Larsen developed a way to bind the chemical polyvinyl chloride to elastic girdle fabric and thereby make the inner cuffs of the garment sticky enough to hold up stockings. In 1965 Munsingwear, a major clothing manufacturer and maker of the familiar Penguin shirts, signed a contract with Bjorn-Larsen, promising him $1,000 a month as advances on royalties for exclusive use of his idea. But in late 1967 the payments stopped after totaling $14,000; Munsingwear told him that his idea had not panned...
McCann, 49, the daughter of a subway worker, grew up in Manhattan's garment district, attending parochial schools and Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., which was then an expensive Catholic school for women. "It's a poor family that can't afford one lady," said her father, who had to struggle to keep her there. Working in school plays gave her a taste of drama. During a trip to a real backstage-to visit Rosalind Russell in Wonderful Town-she became infected with an incurable disease: the dread Broadway fever. Says she: "I was hooked...
...likely to have its own problems in selling a program. At present, it is a house divided among 105 unions that include conservative construction workers, government employees, garment workers who make an average of $6,500 a year and airline pilots who sometimes earn more than $100,000. As a result, Reagan's promises of tax relief last November were appealing to many of the nation's better-paid union members. Though the AFL-CIO officially supported Carter, many among the rank and file refused to go along. In a postelection poll of working-class wards and precincts...