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Terrier midfielder Helen Godfrey slapped a shot outside the penalty circle which bounded off a Crimson defender's shoe and toward the goal...
Player Piano, Kurt Vonnegut's 1952 satire about automation and the working stiff, was premature. Cat's Cradle (1963), an end-of-the-world scenario, fared better in the wake of Khrushchev's shoe banging and the Cuban missile crisis. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) was, in the expression of the day, right on. The novel was based on the author's experience as an American POW in Dresden when Allied bombers killed 135,000 civilians. This reminder of total war coincided with the mayhem of Viet Nam, and Vonnegut the cult writer became a popular voice of generalized disenchantment. His refrain...
...benefit to the shoe industry might amount to little more than a stay of execution. After five years of protection, there is no reason to believe that the American shoemakers would be any more able to fend off foreign competition. Says U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter: "That was the major strike that the footwear industry had against it. If the industry could have demonstrated that it was likely to be price competitive in the future, we may have had a different position...
...refusing to bail out U.S. shoemakers, Reagan further stirred protectionist passions in Congress. The shoe industry has some powerful allies, including Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Danforth of Missouri (home of Buster Brown shoes). Of the four-member New Hampshire delegation, only one, Senator Gordon Humphrey, supported the President. "I don't represent shoeworkers only," declared Humphrey. "I represent consumers." Humphrey is not running for re-election next year...
Still, it is likely that Reagan correctly gauged the political odds on shoes. Though determined, the defenders of the shoe industry are not numerous enough to carry Congress. That is, unless they can make common cause with Congressmen fronting for some other--and more powerful--endangered industry, such as steel, textiles or autos...