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Stanford officials claim, perhaps in an attempt to persuade the Cantabridgian Khrushchev into putting his shoe back on, that the whole controversy has been blown out of proportion by the article. "We never offered her anything that any other Music major doesn't have access to," Tanya Granoff, assistant to the dean of admissions, told The Crimson last week...
Some bosses think they can elicit brainstorms from their workers simply by plying them with coffee and doughnuts. But Bruce Katz, president of Rockport Co., a shoe manufacturer in Marlboro, Mass., thinks a little sun and wind surfing are a much better inducement. This summer he is spending a reported $15,000 a month to rent Plaisance, a 20-room chateau by the sea in Newport, R.I., that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss...
...walked in quietly and a shoe caught her motherly attention. It was sitting on my bureau in my room, but it wasn't mine. The shoe was black and had at least a six-inch heel. Not knowing that it belonged to one of my roommate's girlfriends, my mom first took a close look at my bed and, noticing that the mess on the matteress held only one inebriated soul, she slowly scowled around the room for that evil being that had corrupted her invaluable son. Not finding anything in the room, she gathered enough courage to open...
Those sleek, chic foreign shoes that beckon in store windows may soon be in short supply. The U.S. International Trade Commission said last week that it + will recommend to President Reagan a five-year program of import quotas to aid the struggling American shoe industry. Foreign competitors took 71% of the U.S. market last year, up from 4% in 1960. Under the ITC plan, imports of shoes with a value of $2.50 or more per pair would be limited to 474 million pairs during each of the next two years, a decrease of 17.6% from 1984. Imports would be allowed...
Reeboks come from the unfashionable town of Bolton, England, in depressed Lancashire. The shoe's manufacturer came into the U.S. market in 1979, and its products were first picked up by aerobic dancers. They and others especially liked models with a stylish, light leather exterior. The company also promoted Reeboks as a favorite of the dedicated athlete, an image bolstered when Steve Jones, who set a world record in Chicago's America's Marathon, was photographed in a pair of Reeboks. Last year total U.S. sales reached $65 million, up from $3.5 million three years ago. The overall market...