Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jack, who not only looks like a cowboy but smokes Marlboros. Tall (6 ft.), blond, ruggedly handsome and beguilingly informal, he flew off on a four-day tour of the Midwest last week carrying a green knapsack decorated with a KEEP BETTY IN THE WHITE HOUSE button. People often confuse the Ford sons and push their way up to Jack to say, "Gee, Mike," or "Gee, Steve, can I have your autograph?" Rather than embarrass anybody, Jack signs the appropriate name. One of Jack's recurring problems is how to dodge the blind dates that his hosts eagerly...
...growing market: Wall Street, where stock traders can reach one another at a touch of a button, using consoles made by non-Bell companies. Present regulations require approval of these devices by the FCC. That is not a major burden even to small manufacturers, but the new bill would take the FCC out of the picture and require equipment approval by utility regulators in all 50 states. Ma Bell is well prepared for these laborious procedures; the smaller companies...
...Southern idiom, no lady is merely pregnant; she is "in bloom" or "her bees are aswarming." Girls are variously "ugly as homemade soap" or "pretty as a speckled pup." It does not rain in the South; it "comes up a cloud." For young children, the mystery of the belly button is easy to explain: it is "where the Yankee shot you." Acquaintanceship? "We've howdied but we haven't shook." Crowding? "There's not room enough in here to skin a cat without getting hair in your mouth." If things are going well, "life's just...
...brand new, push-button telephones in the 26th-floor editorial offices overlooking Manhattan's Central Park are brilliant red. So is the floor -fire engine red. "I painted it myself," boasts Publisher Bartle Bull, 36, as he flips through, a stack of folders that are also, well, red. Bull, former publisher of the Village Voice, and Editor Dennis Smith, 35, fire fighter and bestselling author (Report from Engine Co. 82, The Final Fire), are ablaze with enthusiasm for their new monthly magazine. The scarlet letters on the charter issue due out Sept. 10 read Firehouse...
Though he says his designs come out of a "crucible of pain," Saint Laurent has an extraordinarily fertile and precise imagination. Working in Marrakech, seldom spending more than 15 minutes on a single drawing, he designed his latest collection so perfectly that not a bead or button had to be changed when he arrived at his Paris headquarters to inspect the finished array of 106 styles...