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...blacks do not participate in the solution to this country's difficulties, there will be no solution. It is going to take a thorough interweaving of minorities within majorities and majorities within minorities to deal with crime and drugs and jobs and health. So far, the most energetic piecer-together of the component strips of such an electoral quilt is Jesse Jackson, rhetorical, ecumenical, opportunistic, making history, making jokes...
...gimmick. A free-spirited Olympic swimmer who was banned from competition after riding a bike into the Japanese Imperial moat, Linda announced that she would tame the Channel clad only in goggles and bear grease. When the Channel Swimming Association frosted the idea, Linda added a red one-piecer to her attire and plunged in. She lost her goggles three-quarters of the way to England, then stumbled on the rocks at the finish and badly gashed herself above the left breast. But her time of 9 hr. 59 min. broke the women's record...
B.V.D. and other underwear makers soon made up the sales deficit by switching to shirts and shorts, pajamas and other garments, but the classic B.V.D. one-piecer never hit its old stride again (last year U.S. males bought only 720,000 pairs). The Erlanger interests concentrated more & more on their basic spinning, weaving and finishing operations in the South, this year decided to get out of the retail business altogether...
...month from two old-line textile firms. By pumping new advertising into the old B.V.D. name on its line of underwear and sports clothes, Onyx-Superior thinks it can boost its sales by $2,000,000 this year. The new owners will keep right on making the classic one-piecer...
...toss a hand grenade 40 yards. Workmen of the Savin factory practice bayonet drills every day after hours. Bernadsky, a professor at the Herzen Institute, practices with rifle and hand grenade along with the rest of the staff. In the textile mills, Weaver Nikitina, Spinner Vasileyeva, Winder Zhdanova and Piecer Isayeva are busy teaching their fellow workers first...
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