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Appearance: Brawny (5 ft. 9 in., about 1601bs.), hard-eyed, balding, a trim, athletic, professional soldier...
...than 50 years in picture-postcard North Dighton, Mass. (pop. 1,500), Mount Hope Finishing Co. has been the town's only employer. Its 17½-acre, ivy-covered plant, largest textile-finishing mill under one roof in the world, is ringed with a park and the pleasant, trim houses of its 800 workers. Under 76-year-old President Joseph K. Milliken, Mount Hope never had a union, but paid its workers the going wages for the industry. It practiced the kind of old-style, New England paternalism that made "J.K." a popular boss. If sickness struck, he always...
Seventy-two-year-old E. M. Forster is almost as rumpled and untidy as his rooms. The tweeds he wears are worn and baggy, his thinning grey hair unruly, his bushy grey mustache in need of a trim. Bony and angular, with pale, piercing eyes, he looks, as one American interviewer put it, rather "like a spare, intelligent, ruffled heron...
...gesture in the grand Churchillian manner. In itself, it would save little (about $80,000 to date), and the well-heeled Tory ministers could easily afford it. But psychologically, it put the Tories in a better position to trim national expenditures, and its subtle implication was that within three years the Tories would have Britain shipshape again...
...known many a woman to go across the border, put on three or four pairs of step-ins and walk back across the bridge. They save several dollars." Many Canadian manufacturers, he claimed, just take the U.S. retail price, add Canada's duty, sales and defense taxes, then trim the resulting price 2%, "just enough to make sure that people will not. . . buy in the United States...