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...Longer Hidebound. The hard drive to sell more shoes is a product of some major changes in the shoe industry. The industry has been for decades a casual and fragmented father-to-son business, with a relatively high rate of profit (up to 20% on invested capital) and little mechanization; even today 220 people work on the average pair of shoes. In the last few years, however, mergers and some failures have reduced the numbers of producers by 10%, and the few big manufacturers -International, Brown, Endicott Johnson, Genesco and U.S. Shoe-have expanded their share of the market...
Most important, the development of leather substitutes has shaken up the hidebound industry, opening new prospects in automation and styling. Though Du Pont's new synthetic, Corfam, has conquered less than 1% of the market so far. 79 major shoemakers are using it and Du Pont is struggling to keep up with demand. The company predicts that out of a total of 650 million shoes sold this year, up to 7,000,000 will be made of Corfam, hopes that the synthetic will stimulate U.S. shoe sales much as nylon increased U.S. clothing sales...
...book begins with "total disaster now on tracks" for earth, and "the whole planet absolutely flapping hysterical with panic." Any reader who hopes to learn in the end whether the Nova Mob outwits the efforts of Has san's Nova Police to save the world reveals a hidebound, unhip fixation with the old plotted fiction...
Golden Girl. Another hidebound type is Britain's strapping Honor Blackman, 37, who became celebrated for the array of leather suits, jackets, trench coats and boots that she sported in a Freudian private-eye TV series called The Avengers. As a result, so many women demanded leather garments in Britain that the price of shoes went up. Honor plays Pussy Galore, the leather-sheathed leader of an Amazonian flying circus, in Goldfinger, the new James Bond thriller. Another face from Britain in Goldfinger belongs to Shirley Eaton, 27, blonde alumna of endless Carry On . . . comedies. No leather for Shirley...
...industrial state where Barry has little appeal. Keating has decided to wage his Senate campaign as an "independent" Republican if Goldwater is nominated, and last week he hinted that he might even vote for Lyndon Johnson in November. "I'm a good Republican," said Keating, "but not a hidebound Republican...