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...departments have been opened at Sears, Roebuck stores, and at least half of the dress slacks sold by J.C. Penney are double knits. "We're manufacturing men's suits as fast as we can, but we hardly get them into the store before they're sold," Genesco Chairman Frank Jarman told TIME'S Eileen Shields. Adds Ralph Lazarus, chairman of the nationwide Federated Department Stores chain: "Men are buying knit slacks like there is no tomorrow...
...battle cut-rate imports better by increasing its productive efficiency than by raising its protective barriers. Last week Genesco, Inc. and Hughes Aircraft showed off a jointly developed machine that may help U.S. clothing makers to compete. The machine, which looks like a miniature steel rolling mill, maneuvers a laser beam over cloth to cut garments according to computer-determined patterns. It acts with speed, accuracy and a flexibility that human cutters cannot match. It can cut a man's sport coat, a woman's skirt and a child's pair of shorts consecutively from the same...
FRANKLIN M. JARMAN Chairman, GENESCO Nashville...
...them around to picket. Duke University's director of placement services, Patricia O'Connor, has seen little indication of students avoiding business, but feels that many are now "more flexible" about whom they will work for. William W. Wells, director of selection and placement for Genesco, notes a new humility among undergraduates: "They want a job and are not so particular...
...hear go in one ear and out the other. The half-day drill brings marked improvement: "retention" rates in one group of salesmen (notoriously poor listeners) rose from 20% to 84% after the course. Jarman was so enthusiastic about the program that he ordered the sessions for 800 other Genesco staffers. "The listening course sharpens a latent skill," says General Electric Personnel Consultant Dr. G. Roy Fugal. "It's like a game of golf. You have to practice...