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...crack $100 million in annual sales for the first time. Led by sharp, hard-driving David Schwartz, Logan last year reached $81 million; Maurice Saltzman's Bobbie Brooks was close behind at $75.5 million. Ranged well below them but growing fast is a $20 million to $30 million tier that includes Majestic Specialties, Russ Togs and White Stag, and a third echelon that is working upward from the $10 million plateau...
...Unconnables. At the prison, Warden Jack Fogliani has set aside a whole tier of cells for Synanon. Occupying it are men who normally would be under maximum security. Yet this tier is the only one in which the cells are left unlocked at night. Each 4-ft. by 8-ft. cubicle is spick-and-span. On the walls, instead of calendar nudes, are reproductions of Van Gogh and art work done by the inmates. Neither Fogliani nor the prison guard captain visits the Synanon tier unless invited...
When prison officials called in a force of 200 machine gun-toting cops to reinforce the regular guards, the prisoners in their high, fourth-tier redoubt began to shoot their hostages, one by one, to "dramatize" their demand. Two of 'the bodies were hurled from a window to the cops and guards in the courtyard below...
Less Self. Of the 1,456 delegates packed into the pier pavilion, the great majority come from Britain's "new middle class," an expanding tier that reaches from skilled workers to professional and managerial classes. It is this segment of society that has been hardest hit by the Conservative government's white-collar wage restraints-the "pay pause"-while staunchly resisting the Labor Party's archaic doctrines and chronic schisms. Though they have made dramatic gains in by-elections during the past year, the Liberals have been dismissed as a party of protest that is still...
...temperature, heavy humidity and the luck of the draw helped add to the tension as post time approached. The heavy favorite, Andrew C. Petersen's bay colt A.C.'s Viking, had drawn a wicked post position: No. 15, far from the rail in the second tier of horses...