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...walks up to the second floor, turns left, and passes 23 rows of machines to get to her JUKI sewing machine on the aisle. She sits down and picks up a light blue piece of polyester knit, that will eventually be part of a Van Heusen "Vanknit." With her right hand, she picks a button out of the box on a small side table, and lays it in a slot of her machine. With her left hand, she positions the cloth, using a mark on the machine. Her foot, and her green slipper, depress a pedal, and the machine places...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee jr., | Title: 'Welcome to the Republic of China' | 1/9/1973 | See Source »

...prime target of official ire is a ragged, typewritten newsletter called the Chronicle of Current Events. The organ of the loosely knit Democratic Movement in Russia, the Chronicle provides accurate and exhaustive news of the arrests and trials of dissidents that are not reported in the official press. In spite of frequent efforts by the KGB (secret police) to halt the Chronicle's widespread underground circulation, 27 issues have appeared regularly since publication began in 1968. The KGB recently stepped up its drive to stamp out the journal. Scores of suspects have been rounded up and interrogated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Crackdown on Dissent | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...sure, the New Jewelers, who number among their loose-knit ranks such artists as Painter Roy Lichtenstein and Sculptors Pol Bury and Barbara Chase-Riboud, are also capable of work that crosses the thin borderline between mere decoration and art. Some pieces, such as Phyllis Mark's kinetic pendants, which suspend shimmering abstract forms within silver ovals, are even sold with stands so that they can be displayed as glittering tabletop art. Other works, like the slablike silver and Lucite pendant by Denver Sculptor Barbara Locketz, need no prop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Jewelry: Back to Design | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

...appropriate that South House's first major contribution to the Harvard dramatic community should be informal and intimate rather than coolly professional. Ever since the dorms went co-ed three years ago. Radcliffe has been the place where people live who want to be part of a relaxed, close-knit community. In that same personal tone, the South House company now asks its audiences to "Enjoy the cheese and the play in the comfort of your own House...

Author: By Wendy Lessfr, | Title: Strolling Players | 11/30/1972 | See Source »

Dowling recalled that the 1968 Eli squad was a close-knit outfit, No one resented Dowling and his press clippings, and his larger-than-life image may even have helped the team. "I didn't mind that the press made me out to be a legend," he said, "If everyone thought I had some sort of unnatural control over my teammates, I wasn't going to contradict them, especially if it had a good effect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dowling: Ex-Yale star Alnts for Plunketts Joo | 11/25/1972 | See Source »

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