Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan's assertive role at the Versailles summit, plus his recent nuclear arms-reduction overture to the Soviets, should forever lay to rest the assumption that the President is ready to push the button and blow us all to hell! Your picture of Ronald Reagan saluting French Gardes Républicaines captures the President's jaunty style. We have not seen flair and savoir-vivre like his in any of our leaders since John F. Kennedy...
...since John Kennedy posed boldly in a two-button coat, defying decades of three-button tradition, has a suit of clothes gained such worldwide attention as the blue-and-gray glen plaid outfit that Ronald Reagan wore to Europe...
...bolt of cloth was sent along to Beverly Hills Tailor Frank Mariani, who makes all of Reagan's suits. He went to work with the quiet confidence that comes from knowing his customer's taste: two-button coat, medium-width lapels, pleated trousers and six buttons on the fly. For $1,200 the suit was a beauty, and Mariani suspected back then that it might be destined for fame. "The President likes his clothes," explains Mariani. "He builds a fondness for them...
...that when the President was spied coming down the corridor in the morning in a brown suit, he was in a bad mood. Aide Tom Stephens flashed the word all through the White House to beware. GQ's Haber insists that Kennedy's fondness for a two-button coat began a trend that drove three-button models out of the market. Kennedy also put the last nail in the coffin of the men's hat industry. He was proud of his bushy hair and refused to wear a hat, despite the pleadings of the industry. Gerald Ford...
Programming, or software, is lagging behind the portable-computer revolution, however. Easy-to-use programs are hard to come by, limiting the utility of the most advanced portable computer and frustrating the average user. In recognition of this problem, the keyboard of the new IXO portable terminal has buttons marked YES, NO and-an industry first-DON'T KNOW. There is also a button marked HELP...