Word: knit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ideals of their denizens, to the extent that Seventh Avenue, capital of the garment industry, is almost as much show biz as Broadway. Thus this week Garment Manufacturer Richard Schwartz, the young (28) president of Jonathan Logan Inc., flies west for road-show tryouts of his new knit line. Schwartz will see what sells best among buyers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago, get his stitchers busy for what he hopes will be a long run in his New York showrooms. In the $30 billion garment industry, where the life of the average women's-wear company...
...temptation, of course, is to avoid the decision. Riots, people say, are the result of revolting conditions-- they are the price for 200 years of white supremacy. Riots, the argument continues, will knit Negro communities together and will make Black men realize the depth of the struggle they must fight. Finally, riots start spontaneously; they are not planned weeks in advance by a handful of "highly trained agitators in some underground hideout." In conclusion, riots appear to be an unavoidable phenomenon dictated by the conditions which have come before; they are like any other natural disaster, only they...
...this has potential significance beyond the housing market. The traditional Cambridge is pictured as a city of separate, tightly-knit communities remaining from that time that the city absorbed large numbers of immigrants. The national groups stuck together closely, although time and affluence have weakened the bonds as affluent sons and daughters moved up and away. But these communities have persisted in modified form. A drive along Cambridge St. east from Harvard Square reveals only a superficial reminder of this continuity: a long string of small stores and shops geared almost exclusively to the needs of local neighborhoods...
...world's intricate system of monetary cooperation, which has made possible the West's surge of prosperity since World War II, depends on trust and teamwork among central bankers. Perhaps more than any other institution, the B.I.S. helps knit such personal ties. In addition to the work sessions last week, there were teas, cocktail parties, receptions and dinners for delegates and their wives-and the traditional gourmet stag lunch at Basel's venerable Schützenhaus restaurant. "The B.I.S.," says Economist Robert Triffin, Yale's famed international monetary expert, "is partly a country club and partly...
...this has potential significance beyond the housing market. The traditional Cambridge is pictured as a city of separate, tightly-knit communities remaining from that time that the city absorbed large numbers of immigrants. The national groups stuck together closely, although time and affluence have weakened the bonds as affluent sons and daughters moved up and away. But these communities have persisted in modified form. A drive along Cambridge St. cast from Harvard Square reveals only a superficial reminder of this continuity: a long string of small stores and shops geared almost exclusively to the needs of local neighborhoods...