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...Jane Fonda's handyman last week was Lawyer-Author Mark Lane (Rush to Judgment), who flew from New York to Cleveland to spring Jane from jail. Charged with importing some 2,000 tranquilizers and pep pills from Canada and roughing up a cop and a customs agent to boot, Jane, 32, said of her overnight stay in stir: "When you think that the best people in this country are now in jail, I didn't mind it at all." For Dewi Sukarno, 30, widow of the late President Sukarno of Indonesia, it was a helping hand...
...weeks ago, Italy's conservative C.I.S.L. labor union called a general strike in the Reggio area. Port workers, post office clerks and telephone and telegraph employees left their jobs. When railway workers followed last week, the 10 million people in Sicily and the toe of the Italian boot were virtually cut off from the rest of the ''country. Barricades and wrecked tracks forced trains from the north to halt two hours short of Reggio. The Highway of the Sun, Italy's main north-south autostrada, was sealed off. With the port blocked, hundreds of trucks...
...move against graceful footwear started slowly several years ago. Miniskirts get much of the blame: so much leg exposure, it was decided, required a heavy shoe. Accordingly rounded toes were first blunted slightly, next squared off enough to boot field goals. Heels grew plump, then squatted as if to take root. Still, all was not lost: vamps stayed high-cut and flattering, and flimsy straps crossed ankles and insteps without looking like tourniquets. But then came clogs. Wooden-soled and styled like gravy boats, the Swedish imports and U.S. copies did a sellout business last year. After sport shoes went...
Blumenthal's formal nomination, which should come within the next several weeks, will draw him from Marine Corps Reserve boot camp at Parris Island, S.C. If approved by the Senate for his $38,000-a-year job, he will be the youngest man to hold a Presidential appointment at that level. Blumenthal is 24 years...
...being tried out with two battalions of trainees (about 2,500 men), Fort Ord's merit program eliminates the most egregious indignities of the old-style boot camp. Arriving trainees are greeted courteously, not chivvied into their first formation by snarling sergeants. In place of the customary head shaving, they are given a choice of three suggested hair styles. Nor must they tolerate the name-calling and physical threats that have characterized basic training till now. Along with their green fatigues, recruits are issued laminated plastic "merit cards" on which their instructors can punch up to 50 points...