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...care, but others charge so much less than privately run centers that it constitutes a major bargain. Intermedics, a heart-pacemaker manufacturer in Freeport, Texas, for example, charges its employees $25 a week per child. At its day care centers in Boston and Cambridge, the Stride Rite shoe company bills workers a maximum of $50 a week...
Behind them there was a crash. A shoe had fallen from between the cracks of the temporary stands high above...
Across town another man might vicariously fulfill himself by stepping into Clark Gable's shoe prints on a Hollywood sidewalk, another woman might prove herself Lana Turner's equal in some way on the same boulevard. But these souls in the Coliseum had more action in their dreams: they had beaten the wind in the arena of the swift. Having achieved that, they would step back into the throng and go about their jobs...
...training and living expenses. Thus Marathoner Frank Shorter could begin pitching for Canon cameras and Hilton Hotels, Kodak could sign up Moses, Decker and Marathoner Alberto Salazar, and everyone who was anyone in track and field could finally admit to having been on the payroll of somebody's shoe company since high school...
...column a week, at $3 each, for the Kettering-Oakwood Times, a suburban weekly. Her desk was a piece of plywood supported by cinder blocks in the Bombeck bedroom. Her participation in the stately procession of English literature stopped before the family came home, and the shoe-leather minute steaks and ketchup