Word: breastpocket
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...would have used their own reporters to cover the story--the Globe and Newsday, for instance--instead ran AP's version of it. The AP story made it seem that the Reagan Administration was doing something beneficial for college students not born with a silver fountain-pen in their breastpocket...
Marvy is a substantial, pink-faced man with a sandy mustache and a booming voice. He has three Dutch Masters cigars and a ballpoint pen in the breastpocket of his suit. But it isn't hard to change the ballpoint to a fountain pen, erase a few facial lines and see him as a 25-year-old self-employed salesman, striding into a two-chair barber shop in some one-horse Minnesota town. "Keep up with the times," he would say, unpacking samples of Tiger Root and Pinaud's Lilac Vegetal. "Look to the future. Have a cigar...
Camera dealers in Florida have been getting orders for the past few weeks from customers as far away as Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and New York City. Orders are pouring in because Florida is the only state where Polaroid's new, breastpocket-sized SX-70 models (TIME Cover, June 26) will be sold until next year, and camera buffs are rushing to buy it. Indeed, Polaroid itself has thousands of unsolicited orders from photographers around the U.S. Though the buyers are willing to make the $180 camera one of the hottestChristmas items in years, Polaroid and its dealers will...
...enterprise as well: Washington Correspondent Vera Glaser cracked a secret women's caucus with a concealed tape recorder, and her colleague Clark Hoyt had the first story on how anti-McGovern forces were conspiring to support local candidates in November instead of the national ticket. Several papers used breastpocket "beepers" to maintain contact with their reporters, but the technique backfired on the Los Angeles Times: one of its men was ejected from a closed black caucus when his beeper went off, blowing his cover as a delegate...
...Gracie Mansion, the mayor's official residence, it took only a flicker of fantasy to imagine that they were standing in the White House portico, circa 1972. It was almost a case of take-your-pick. Dressed alike in dark suits and rep ties-only the breastpocket handkerchief set Harvardman Kennedy apart from Yaleman Lindsay-both exuded all the youth, intelligence and patrician good looks a voter could hope for. Though mere commoners in their respective parties, the mayor and the Senator each had about him a certain look of political inevitability...