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Many individual firms round the country are also feeling the first flush of recovery. In Waltham, Mass., Hewlett-Packard's medical electronics plant reports that orders are up 20% over a year ago, while in Norwood, Mass., Northrop Corp. is expanding its precision products plant to accommodate demand. Officials at Whirlpool Corp. in Michigan report that sales of appliances have been climbing since June...
...grew up in a hockey family in a hockey town (Norwood, Mass.) with a brother who just happened to be a goalie," he said. "It was just natural for me to follow him. I started out as a goalie, and believe me--I wouldn't want to be anything else...
...complete satisfaction of McCurdy, Keefe, from Norwood and Xaverian Brothers High School, assumed the role of team leader, and led a grueling pace throughout the training session, whipping the team into condition. McCurdy asked, "How the hell can an introspective musician be such a good dictator...
About Paterson is in many ways a politically naive work: Norwood chooses to treat Kramer's 1969 re-election as a tribute to the city's spirit. "Paterson had every reason to seek an easy way out; but the city did not choose to do so," she writes. "Underneath its hates and fears and confusions, the city's fiber ran strong." But one wants to know more about where the votes came from that kept Kramer in office, and how he managed to get them to the polls...
Crippled as it is, Paterson cannot solve its own problems. Urban renewal, the blind arm of the federal bureaucracy, cannot save it--Kramer's experience with HUD, which Norwood documents, demonstrates the insensitivity of federal aid to cities. But revenue sharing, which put money in the hands of the people who have already failed to manage the city, is not the answer either. We leave Paterson in confusion, clinging, like Sam Patch, to a belief in the spirit of a city that has persevered...