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Jonathan Logan has brought modern management methods to a colorfully confused industry. In a business where buyers traditionally go to sellers, Jonathan Logan has more than 60 button-down salesmen constantly visiting the trade, testing trends, reporting on sales. At its new distribution center in New Jersey, a Univac computer sorts and digests day-to-day orders according to models, shades and sizes; with it, the company can toss out slow sellers or step up production in a hurry. Jonathan Logan even has its own C46 transport airlifting fabrics and finished goods to and from its 28 plants around...
...five in 1956. Richard Nixon won three in 1960 and polled 4,700,000 votes in the South - only 400,000 less than John Kennedy. As the surprising G.O.P. sentiment bubbled up, virtually without local leadership, the party began attracting a new breed of politician- furrow-browed, button-down, college-trained young amateurs who, one by one, took over control of the state parties from apathetic and aging professionals. The new wave is now in command of Alabama, Mississippi, and South and North Carolina. The four rebel state chairmen...
...discovering eye shadow, generally paint their nails; they most frequently sport bouffant or Bardot hairdos, though Audrey Hepburn cuts ($1.50) and permanents ($6) are gaining in popularity. Hip guys, or firmennye (literally, foreign firms), go for white shirts and solid ties from France; but hard-to-get button-down shirts and striped ties from the U.S. Ivy League are the most. Bell-bottom trousers, longtime mark of Soviet orthodoxy, are worn only by servicemen, hayseeds, and Nikita Khrushchev...
...Newhart Show (NBC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Bob as a button-down Santa, abetted by the Four Freshmen, male quartet. Color...
...problems that grownups never knew. "When I went to school here," recalls History Teacher Schuyler Royce of Andover's Phillips Academy, "the only question was which college you would take your white shoes to. When I got out in 1941, all I needed was a knit tie, a button-down shirt and Daddy's money to get into any college I wanted. These boys know they can't write their own ticket. They're so much more aware...