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...major industries were more savagely battered by the recent recession than textiles, which suffered a loss of sales so severe that production and employment plunged to levels unseen since the dark days of the 1930s. Today the industry is making a stunningly strong comeback. Mills that were operating only two or three days a week last winter are now spinning and weaving round the clock, five or even six days a week. Sales and output are surging well ahead of the general pace of recovery despite the less than robust condition of two prime textile markets, housing and autos. Unemployment...
There were two early tipoffs that this wasn't going to be your run-of-the-mill sports hype. There are no pictures in the book ("What, no pictures?!" my roommate exclaimed as he leafed through the 413-page volume). And Ali begins the book by talking about his loss to Ken Norton, instead of starting out with a victory...
...years. As a book, it is a little underfurnished. There is no commentary, no analysis, only the bare scripts ac companied by a few photos. Yet it escapes nonbook status, thanks to the peculiarly literary nature of Bob & Ray's medium. From Fred Allen's 1954 Tread mill to Oblivion to the recent multi-volume compilations of the BBC's Goon Show, reprinted radio routines have proved surprisingly readable, and for sound reason. Alone among comedy forms, they celebrate the primacy of the word...
...students, Terry Horsman and Ira Neaman, last summer operated the Mill Creek Artisan's Revival in Yarmouth, on Cape Cod, with an Amherst College student, Richard Linnell...
...Quinn up there, a real estate man," he says. "And a photographer. Let's see, a beauty shop; a secreterial school, used to be, now it's a printing company. There was a tailor up there too--a fellow by the name of Raia. That was over the Grist Mill. I don't know what's there...