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...better relations with the Chinese and Soviets than they have with each other. Despite some Russian claims to the contrary, there was no hard evidence that Nixon's mining operation had started a reconciliation between the two Communist giants, whose antipathy cuts far too deep for any quick patch...
Dangling threads, unpressed seams, bulging linings, drooping hems, pop-off buttons, crooked pockets, puckered zippers, flawed fabrics and mismarked sizes are common. Seamstresses are being deluged with requests from unwary purchasers to patch up the flaws. Customers, retailers and even manufacturers acknowledge that the dress mess is critical. "It is the biggest unsolved problem in retailing," says Cyril Magnin, chairman of San Francisco-based Joseph Magnin, adding, "I spend more time on the quality problem than anything else." Margaret Dadian, vice president for the Midwest's Kay Campbell's Shops, headquartered in Evanston, Ill., calls the problem...
Ford was forced into this odd procedure by a budding driver rebellion against recalls that look to critics like mere patch-up jobs. Two weeks ago, Ford executives decided only to install an inexpensive retainer plate on a rear hub of each car. The plate is designed to increase the screeching noise that occurs when an axle starts to come loose, so that the driver cannot help noticing it, and to hold the axle in place for at least 100 miles, so that the driver has time to reach a garage. In doing no more than that, the company would...
...decisive in borderline cases. "This is a chance for the sensitive, imaginative student to get even," says Bowdoin's Admissions Director Richard Moll. Amy Carney ensured her acceptance to Bowdoin when she spotted a tear in Moll's pants, then mailed him an embroidered linen patch accompanied by a quotation from Thoreau on the value of mending old clothes. The college's aim, says Moll, is "to build a class full of differences...
...answer to requests for the use of the Yard, Cabot received a flat "no," but since then so many Festival dreams have materialized that the Administration seems to be offering far more cooperation--all to the University's advantage, one would like to hope, and an excellent way to patch up its damaged reputation where the community is concerned...