Word: laconia
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...Sandra Bullock in The Net me, lives on Laconia Avenue in the Bronx. Luckily, AmEx's massive computer system noticed subtle differences from my normal spending patterns. This impressed me until I realized the computer had failed to consider that I would never survive a week of living in the Bronx...
...powder press may change all that, turning American industry on its head. That, as it happens, is exactly what company CEO Alan Beane, 52, has wanted to do for most of his professional career. Born in Laconia, N.H., Beane, like so many New England natives, developed an admiration for the rugged factory culture that defines this corner of the country. He had manufacturing in his blood; in his youth he spent Sunday mornings poking about his grandfather's Dartmouth Woolen Mills, which produced green blankets for the U.S. military. "My image of factories came from those mornings in the mill...
Beane was ambitious--or at least ambitious enough to leave Laconia when he turned 18 and go study economics and industrial R. and D. at the University of Pennsylvania. He returned in 1970--a Wharton graduate in a land of lunch buckets--and became a partner in his father's C.P.A. firm, servicing the high-tech companies that were slowly replacing the smokestack factories he had grown up with. After a few years of totting up the profits of other people's businesses, he decided he'd rather be doing some of that manufacturing...
...first blush, Glenn Beane didn't appear to be the stuff of which industrialists are made. A painter, sculptor and filmmaker, he had studied art at Syracuse University, then returned to Laconia, where he converted an old farm building into a sculpture studio and bronze foundry. There, during the years Alan spent as an entrepreneur, Glenn created his art and took in the odd commercial job, like casting bronze propellers for boats. "That's how I made money and put wine on the table," he says...
When given a flier, the proprietor of a shoe repair store in Laconia, a man calling himself Armondi told the students, "I'm nobody's supporter - I'm my own supporter...