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After the death of his first wife, Isaac Presler decided to abandon the shoe-manufacturing business, and in 1952 he began a new career as a sales-clerk at Macy's department store in Manhattan. He was then 56, but in his spare time he also earned a high school diploma and went on to college courses. He was 68 when he finally got his degree as a bachelor of business administration from CUNY'S Baruch College. At 74, after 18 years and an excellent record at Macy's, he finally retired and asked for his pension...
...decided to help them by turning Libya into an instant industrial state. So far, he has decreed that 40 new industries must be launched, ranging from clothing and pharmaceuticals to steel tubing and petrochemicals. To the delight of European suppliers, Libya has ordered $180 million worth of cement, shoe and glass factories from West Germany, a $50 million power plant from France, and other major equipment from Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Gaddafi is unimpressed by evidence that the highly automated plants will provide fewer than 5,000 new jobs-the most exacting of which will undoubtedly have to be filled...
...Daley's proposed public works in Chicago; he opposed busing. But what he chiefly presented to the voters was Walker the man -straight-shooting, indignant, a mite self-righteous. He would lock eyes with his audience and demand: "Aren't you fed up with race-track and shoe-box politics?" It was an allusion to scandals that have embarrassed the Daley machine. Voters apparently were too mesmerized to remember the Walker Report or whether they liked it. They liked Walker because he appeared to care, and they liked his seven sprightly children who helped in his campaign...
...dusk they position themselves in the shadow of the city's tallest, busiest building and are simultaneously bee-swarmed by the swish of traffic, smell of bagels, whistles of cops and honking of cabs while they wait to feel the electricity of the place coming right through their shoe soles from the neon-sparkly sidewalk...
...taking in the traditionally dull Dutch film world. Of course it's still very Burgher there, but I think it's the youth that counts. They're the once who go to the movies and the ones who make them. We made 'Confessions of a Loving Couple' on a shoe-string budget. It was most extraordinary experience, very experimental and all improvisations. Only one take per shot, too, because there wasn't enough money for vast amounts of wilm...