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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...look understandibly inviting. Real penthouse living. Unfortunately concrete idol has clay feet. For some, living in the Towers can be a grisly experience. The view of course is fine if you're lucky enough to get a room above the seventh floor. But you can't look out the window all day, and when you're not looking out the window you look at the three remaining walls in your cinder-block cubicle. More than one year in the Towers could scar a man for life and make a raving idiot of a claustrophobe...
Everything, that is, except the scene in unheated Dee Stadium, where it seemed that half of Houghton was watching the home-town Huskies of Michigan Technological University take on Minnesota of the Big Ten for the second time in two days. Perched on window casings and rafters, the fans screamed "Hit 'em! Hit 'em!" and amused themselves by hurling nickels, dimes, and even a firecracker onto the ice - until the announcer begged them to stop "because our boys could get hurt, too." When Tech won 5-4, they trooped off to the Ambassador Grille to toast the victory...
...rest of the fleet consisted mostly of standard inboards and outboards that might have come from a showroom window. But Jerry Langer's No. 10 was strictly do-it-yourself. An out-board-engine dealer from Miami Beach, Langer had borrowed a Fiberglas mold, poured himself a hull, tacked two ordinary 90-h.p. motors on the back. Just before the race, he decided that he didn't like the pitch of his propellers, so he took a hammer and pounded away until they looked "about right...
Brooks Brothers has put it back in the window for the first time in years, and retailers at last week's men's-wear convention in Dallas were cheering the revival on. Double-breasted blazers, jackets and topcoats have already become the hottest-selling items in stores across the country. A spruced-up version of the suit (narrower lapels, suppressed waist, 11-in. side vents) is now making its bid in spades. Johnny Carson has sported it on his TV show, and fashion magazines have touted it as the latest chic...
...Manhattan, Bronzini last week installed an all-double-breasted window, within three days had sold 15 double-breasted suits and 30 sports jackets. At Man at Ease in Chicago, Proprietor Cesar Rotondi reports: "Double-breasted suits account for 50% of our suit sales. It's unheard...