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Used Shoelaces. The winding back alleys of Khanh Hoi in Saigon used to be relatively quiet during the day; the men were working on the docks, and the women were tending to household chores. Now the area is bustling. Women try to sell nuts and fruits, children hawk secondhand shoelaces, and the men are not likely to find more than two days' work a week. Some farmers have been hit just as hard. The threat of Communist attack-and of American bombs in counterattack-has kept thousands of them from tending their rice fields...
...push" inflation-the type that results when wages and prices drive each other up in a rising spiral. He insisted that controls disturb the free market as little as possible. Kosters' first stand was to argue-successfully-for exempting whole categories of prices, including many rents and most secondhand items. "Take used cars," he says. "They are not part of the production process...
...there is evidence that she lives a great deal in her imagination. She goes to a drive-in to think. Her first purchase when the six-figure movie and paperback money began coming in was a commodious secondhand station wagon: "For years I'd watched drive-in movies from a lawn chair while the girls sat in the Volkswagen. It was either that or scrunch up in back like Charles Laughton on top of Notre Dame." Even her speech shows certain dramatic cadences. Describing her research in children's books, she intones: "There did Marilyn Durham learn what...
...sensitive economic barometers. Bernard Galitzki, owner of a Portland, Ore., fabric-store chain, watches women's dresses. "In a recession, women buy sportswear or no clothes at all," he says. "A healthy dress business means that women expect their husbands to take them out more." Women's secondhand dress shops provide another indicator. Last autumn the clothes on the racks of some shops were three years old; women were hanging on to their old fashions instead of buying more recent ones-a clear sign of hard times. Lately there has been a turnaround, as women rush to sell...
...passed down the road that afternoon. St. Ervan's Road. You took a 52 bus from Victoria Station, getting off at Portobello Road, where Barrie went to the street market every Saturday morning to buy old films, film magazines, secondhand books, stale candies, and, but the looks of it, perhaps his furniture and even the bread I was eating along with the broth from my rooster soup...