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...most successful U.S. manufacturer of the fancy new footwear is Blue Ribbon Sports of Beaverton, Ore., a privately held company founded by Running Enthusiasts Phil Knight, 42, and Bill Bowerman, 69. In just eight years, Blue Ribbon Sports and their Nike (rhymes with psyche) shoes have gone from a standing start to sales of $260 million, and this year they could climb to $360 million or more. Nike is now aiming to overtake Adidas, the West German sports giant. Nike already has 136 models, for every sport from running and tennis to volleyball and wrestling. This year it plans...
...Huey chopper, piloted by National Guard Captain Harold Ward, went up the south fork of the Toutle, which had turned into a caramel ribbon, toward the peak, still shrouded in clouds of steam and ash. The mocha-colored terrain appeared otherworldly, a madly undulating landscape. The trees looked as if they had been strewn across the foothills by a careless child. As we passed over Baker Camp, a logging base, we spotted a pickup truck, a dead child lying face upward in the back. Ward swung the Huey over a huge mudhole that had once been Spirit Lake, a body...
...here and asks for Bass Weejuns, I think I'll scream." Stores that have always catered to the Preppie trade-notably, Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord & Taylor and, naturally, Brooks Brothers-report heavy sales of the basics, as well as such accessories as narrow neckties, webbed watch bands, ribbon belts, circle pins, single strands of pearls, bangle bracelets and brightly embroidered corduroys...
...University two weeks ago, Kennedy proclaimed, "America can no longer afford a policy that improvises from day to day, with no coherent, long-range strategy" for dealing with the Soviet Union. But Kennedy offered no strategy of his own. Instead he proposed the creation of a broad-spectrum, blue-ribbon commission to ponder the matter...
...President Julio Cesar Turbay Ayala after his ruling Liberal Party made a strong showing (54% of the vote) in nationwide municipal elections early last week, had been intended as a concession that could lead the way out of the deadlock. In fact, the government had already named a blue-ribbon panel of nine civilian jurists to oversee the legal procedures. The terrorists' rebuff thus came as a severe disappointment...