Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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INEFFICIENT INDUSTRIES. Even during the best of times, labor-intensive industries like the textile, shoe and watch manufacturers usually have low productivity. If left to survive on their own, many companies in those industries could not compete against foreign producers. For political reasons, however, a number of low-productivity industries are kept afloat by tariffs and import quotas...
...P.G.A. tournaments and currently ranks No. 10 among golf's alltime money winners. (Palmer leads, with $1,364,898.) Besieged by sponsors waiting to have their wallets tapped, he also has a host of lucrative endorsement deals with, among others, Blue Bell, Inc. (sportswear), Abbott Laboratories (golf equipment), Stylist Shoe Co., Downtowner Motor Inns, Chrysler's Dodge Division, and, of course, the Dr Pepper Co. In addition, Lee Trevino Enterprises Inc. is readying a TV series called Golf Celebrity and a $1.5 million luxury apartment complex in El Paso called Casa Trevino...
Solo Affair. Shoe and accessory makers are sharing the bonanza. Says Jim Selva, a manufacturer of theatrical wares: "It's amazing. Our Brooklyn factory, which makes only taps, is turning out 3,000 pairs a day [compared to 1,800 a year ago] and we can't keep up with demand." Sales of funky '40s-style shoes and of children's shoes with taps attached are rising as well...
...other talk-show hosts are nowhere near the complete man that Cavett is. As to their sex appeal-Griffin is a Boy Scout leader, Frost an ulcer-ridden, sweatless advertising executive, and Carson a dissipated shoe salesman...
...Fellini journey, reality is only a pebble in the shoe. He turns the world into his circus and, in a liberated, quasi-documentary style, resurrects some of history's great pagliacci with their cornucopia of practical jokes, smashed hats, pulled chairs, popping balloons and squirting flowers. Fellini's pretense is to restore the icons of his youth for the pleasure of today's children, but beyond the easy delights is a philosophy clearly aimed at adults...