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MAKING THE CLOTHES that others wear is tiring, tedious, noisy work. A piece of clothing in a garment factory is divided into units of work: zippers, belts, seams, sleeves, button holes, facings. A worker performs one of these operations on an incomplete garment which is then passed to the next worker--until the piece is completed by six or seven people. At seven cents per zipper, a stitcher must put in over 36 zippers an hour to earn more than the International Ladies Garment Workers (ILG) Union minimum wage...
...subsequently moved into the Interior Department to clean out Walter Hickel's supporters, and more recently served as the deputy director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Other aides likely to help tame the bureaucracy include Presidential Assistant Peter Flanigan and Special Consultant Leonard Garment...
Klein, a former sportswear manufacturer in Manhattan's garment district who switched to selling real estate only eight months ago, has used the video-tape system for only 21 months. Sales generated so far by his homemade TV shows total eight houses. The idea is spreading. For $4,000, Klein offers to supply other real estate brokers with a camera, TV set and a week-long instruction program detailing how to operate the unit. Already eight brokers have signed up, giving Klein a fast profit on his $30,000 investment...
...write directly for the President. Herb Klein continues to move quietly among the media explaining the President's policies. Nixon seeks advice from a variety of ideological sources. On the one hand, he listens to Deep-Dyed Conservative Buchanan. On the other, he sends liberal-leaning Leonard Garment as an emissary to the intellectual community...
There was always plenty of work for black people in the garment center, almost all of it menial. But black designers were rare-and might still be had not the garment district been in economic doldrums for the past few years. To recapture the interest of hip young customers, the moguls of the apparel industry have been turning to younger designers, both black and white-and, some blacks say, ripping off the flamboyant styles that have long been part of ghetto life. Says Susan Taylor, black fashion editor of Essence magazine: "I could swear that the white folks on Seventh...