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...Texas Viet Nam veterans memorial, began in Dallas Oct. 19 and is to conclude on Veterans Day at the Alamo, in San Antonio, where the veterans will honor 161 Texas servicemen listed as missing in action. Westmoreland led the group along Interstate 35 just south of the small town of Pflugerville, then joined them the following day on the steps of the Texas capitol, in Austin, to accept a proclamation from Governor Mark White supporting the event. It was Westmoreland's second such march; in 1982 he led a procession of 15,000 veterans through Washington...
...bear the name Eastern Air Midwest Express. At Kansas City they transfer to an Eastern flight going to another destination. When returning to the smaller cities, they fly Eastern to Kansas City and then transfer to an Eastern Air Midwest Express plane. In this way Eastern does business in towns in Kansas and Iowa that it does not serve directly. Customers can also benefit from the arrangement because fares are often reduced when small-town fliers buy one ticket instead...
...Lauder blue are everywhere. Porcelain bowls of French beaded flowers, porcelain birds of jeweled hues, drapes copied from the Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna . . . Oriental carpets resting on Lauder blue carpeting . . . It's very thrilling." Estee Lauder loves her lavish office. She is equally entranced by her three-story Manhattan town house, the 27-room redoubt in Palm Beach, Fla., the Riviera hideaway with gardens "breathtakingly similar" to those of Monet's Giverny, the London flat filled with English antiques she had shipped from America. The charm of her memoir--part cosmetic- mogul tough talk, part Gracie Allen gab--is that...
Down on the Freeport town wharf, a fisherman maneuvers through the fog beside the fish dealer's pier, his boat heaped with mussels. Three men in camouflage and carrying shotguns get into an aluminum boat and head out in the rain to where the ducks are. But up on Main Street, a different scene unfolds. At L.L. Bean, a woman fusses over a $65 goose-down pillow, then says to her husband, "I spend half my life in bed, I might as well have a comfortable pillow." Across from Bean's, at Cole Haan, beautiful shoes are on sale...
Freeport (pop. 6,000) is a former shoe factory town 20 miles up the coast from Portland on old Route 1. Its factory outlets sprang from the success of Bean's, founded in Freeport in 1912. It now does $40 million in sales on Main Street and attracts more than 2 million shoppers a year, maybe 2 1/2 million. Edgar Leighton, president of the Merchants' Association, says businessmen looked at those figures and wondered, "How come I'm not getting some of that." So they came to Freeport...