Word: woolens
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...professional career. Born in Laconia, N.H., Beane, like so many New England natives, developed an admiration for the rugged factory culture that defines this corner of the country. He had manufacturing in his blood; in his youth he spent Sunday mornings poking about his grandfather's Dartmouth Woolen Mills, which produced green blankets for the U.S. military. "My image of factories came from those mornings in the mill with Grandfather," he says. "He was fearsome, but he knew the name of every worker and respected them deeply...
Weather reports indicate that the first snowstorms of the season may be only days away. Students will soon trudge to class burdened not only with book-filled backpacks but heavy woolen coats as well. The running paths along the Charles River will no longer be populated with bikers, rollerbladers and joggers. And the lines at the Harvard's undergraduate gymnasium, the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC), will become unbearably long...