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...brothers or their aides inspect as many as 100 crocodile skins before choosing the four that make one handbag. Shoes and other leather goods are made from the hides of Tuscan cattle that are not allowed to leave their stalls at all lest they be scratched. The Guccis' staff of 185 workers, helped by peasants who work for Gucci in their homes around Florence, shape and sew as many as 7,000 pairs of shoes each month, plus pigskin bags made of 130 separate pieces. "There is not much that you can teach a Florentine about merchandising or craftsmanship...
...Fourth of July, thousands of Americans will visit the two remaining active Shaker communities-near Portland, Me., and Canterbury, N.H.-as well as others in Pleasant Hill, Ky., Old Chatham, N.Y., and Hancock, Mass., where original Shaker buildings have been converted into museums. There they can buy Shaker jams, inspect Shaker houses, recapture a whiff of that eternal Shaker afternoon...
...Andromeda Strain, this almost happens. An American probing satellite is picked up on its return by the unwary inhabitants of a small Arizona town. Curious, they open it, inspect it and proceed to die, variously and mysteriously-except for a new baby and an old lush. A four-man scientific team, spearhead of a vast prepackaged program called Operation Wildfire, is immediately dispatched to a sealed-off underground laboratory in the Nevada desert, where both survivors and the capsule are brought. There the specialists attempt to track down the unknown microcosm, identify it as a source of contamination, and produce...
...that was hit by a new Rambler-after the Rambler's drive shaft fell out-was similarly granted permission to sue American Motors. Summing up the reasoning of the Supreme Courts in both states, California Justice Raymond Peters wrote: "Consumers and users, at least, have the opportunity to inspect for defects and to limit their purchases to articles manufactured by reputable manufacturers. The bystander ordinarily has no such opportunities...
Next, Crosby learned that the Chase Manhattan Bank controlled 1,500,000 more shares of Pan Am. He invited a number of Chase officers down to the Bahamas to inspect his Paradise Island complex of hotels and a gambling ca sino. The bankers thereupon agreed to sell their Pan Am stock, then worth about $39 million, for a complex pack age of Resorts' notes and warrants...