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...uncle's store, Felix's, ancestor of the current Linden St. shoe repair store, once stood where Gnomon Copy now stands on Mass...
...says, whether the question deals with Iran of draft registration. Carter has one other thing going for him in this small town--he "had the courtesy," as one woman puts it, to send his son Chip to Farmington. Chip, "a very handsome boy," stopped in at the shoe mill, and then at Kristy's restaurant. "He drank a beer just like a regular guy," and that Moosehead alone probably won the incumbent a dozen votes...
...crowded chamber that had witnessed such historic events as Soviet shoe banging and papal appeals for peace, there was no perceptible change in the low buzz of conversation. But everyone there knew that the Soviet Union had just been publicly rebuked by those nations of the world that it had professed to champion. It was Moscow's most spectacular diplomatic humiliation since the U.N. condemnation of the invasion of Hungary...
Hardest hit is the construction industry, which has come to an almost total halt. Dozens of huge apartment complexes in Tehran stand unfinished. One example of the pervasive industrial malaise is the Melli shoe factory, which used to export 11 million pairs of shoes a year to the Soviet bloc. Production at the Melli plant, now run by production at the Melli plant, now run by a workers' council, is down to 2 million pairs a year, scarcely enough for domestic consumption. The council claims that the problem is lack of spare parts and materials; the real problem...
...marketplace, they run ads in local papers urging people to rummage through their attics. Sotheby's also runs so-called Heirloom Discovery Days, on which for a small fee expert appraisers evaluate real and imagined treasures. A woman dropped in at its Los Angeles branch with a shoe box of attica that she had planned to give to the Salvation Army; the six Faberge silver-and-enamel pieces she unwrapped sold...