Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Passing Fad. Why the vogue for underwear turned outer? For one thing, Ts are relatively cheap (ranging from $3.25 to a top of $14.95); they also eliminate ties and the button crunching of laundries. And as Eloise Laws, 28, a black show-biz beauty shopping on Long Island, put it, "I chose the design, the color, the style. I feel like I created this one myself...
...employees, one of whom suffered bruises from being battered against a desk, said that they made at least five calls to the police and pressed an alarm button between 4:40 p.m. and 4:55 p.m., when police arrived...
...eight members of the board, who include three former members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, meet TIME's editors in New York once each quarter and are consulted frequently on a less formal basis. For this week's effort, Reporter-Researchers Sarah Button and Paul Witteman elicited views from most of the eight, though some were on vacation and one was on the far side of a creaky phone connection to Copenhagen. Correspondent Berry spent several hours with Alan Greenspan, who resigned from the TIME Board when Ford named...
With In Maine (Button; $6.95), an anthology of his newspaper columns, John N. Cole, a flinty ex-New Yorker who founded and edits the crusading liberal weekly Maine Times, makes an oblique case for limiting growth. He does so in the form of eloquent descriptions of the state that he clearly loves. There is the January morning when the bay near Cole's house in Brunswick becomes a 30-sq.-mi. ice rink, and he glides across it alone, watching the sun and clouds pass in perfect reflection under his skates. With unabashed enthusiasm, Cole explains his lifetime love...
...should have seen me then, I tell you. Cocky as hell. Why I used to carry an extra pair of glasses all the time cause I was always getting them busted up in fights. Denim pants and shirt and a gray cap with a Local 25 button on the back. I used to think I could beat any man I met. Course I couldn't always...