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...refusing to bail out U.S. shoemakers, Reagan further stirred protectionist passions in Congress. The shoe industry has some powerful allies, including Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Danforth of Missouri (home of Buster Brown shoes). Of the four-member New Hampshire delegation, only one, Senator Gordon Humphrey, supported the President. "I don't represent shoeworkers only," declared Humphrey. "I represent consumers." Humphrey is not running for re-election next year...
...Karen E. Gordon...
...collision seemed nothing more than a mild jolt. It felt, said Lady Cosmo Duff Gordon, "as though somebody had drawn a giant finger along the side of the ship." She started up in bed, but everything was quiet, so she lay back again. It was 11:40 p.m. Up in the first-class smoking room, where a group of young men were playing a last few rounds of cards, the grinding sound disturbed the game. Several of the players wandered out into the freezing night to take a look. "We hit an iceberg--there it is," somebody said...
...Bureau defines as poverty, which is annual cash income of less than $10,609 for a family of four. The bureau reported last week that the proportion of needy Americans decreased by nearly a full percentage point, to 14.4%, the first reduction after five years of steady increases. Said Gordon W. Green Jr., assistant chief of the Census Bureau's population division: "The reduction in poverty last year occurred basically for all demographic $ groups." In a statement from California, Ronald Reagan said, "I believe these numbers are further proof that the greatest enemy of poverty is the free enterprise system...
...good dentistry has not necessarily been good for dentists. As they lose their bread-and-butter work, filling cavities, the nation's 127,000 dentists are scrambling to fill the gaps in their practices. Some fear that they may be going the way of the blacksmith. Says Dr. Ted Gordon, 62, who has been practicing in Chicago for nearly 40 years: "We're one of the few professions in history that has done everything in its power to put itself out of business." Dental schools, which were expanding until the mid-1970s, are now cutting enrollments. Total enrollment is down...