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...Iowa. A warm wind caressed the long horizon, and a huge moon rose in a clear sky. Thoughts turned to the new growing season and the struggle ahead. There will not be much time for anything else for a few weeks. But memories are not erased by gimmickry and button-down flackery. Living on the land gives people a special sense of participation. "Who does Nixon think he is doing this to?" asked one man. "Who does he think this Government...
...pleasant, hotel-like atmosphere," he asserts. In fact. Kohls is no pimp. Although "the girls" pay him $22 a day for room and board, he does not share in their earnings (fees aver age between $150 and $200). To ensure the girls' safety. Kohls has installed an alarm button in each room. To make life easier for the girls with children, Kohls plans soon to set up nurseries at each Eros center...
...little push-button counters are decorated with small figures to denote either persons walking or riding bicycles. Two of the counters show cyclists going in either direction, and the other two represent people walking in one direction or the other...
...white marble stairs, up a cascading red carpet, we were herded into position on a three-tiered platform erected especially for group portraits with the Premier. Immediately in strode Chou, brisk and businesslike, and very trim in a plain gray tunic with matching gray trousers. A miniature Chairman Mao button pinned to his tunic gave the only dash of color to his outfit. The guests applauded the Premier, and Chou, still unsmiling, clapped in return. Floodlights snapped on and the official photographer cranked off three exposures. Then everybody trailed after the Premier as he entered the Great Hall...
MAKING THE CLOTHES that others wear is tiring, tedious, noisy work. A piece of clothing in a garment factory is divided into units of work: zippers, belts, seams, sleeves, button holes, facings. A worker performs one of these operations on an incomplete garment which is then passed to the next worker--until the piece is completed by six or seven people. At seven cents per zipper, a stitcher must put in over 36 zippers an hour to earn more than the International Ladies Garment Workers (ILG) Union minimum wage...