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...spent $4,562.38 in leftover campaign funds for earrings for Pat Nixon would not ordinarily have been of much consequence. But it was perceived as a vivid symbol, calling immediately to mind a much younger Richard Nixon who bragged on television that his wife wore only a "respectable Republican cloth coat." Strategically, the allegation was also important to investigators because it helped them trace the means by which much of Nixon's campaign funds had apparently been "laundered...
...range of colors, weights, twists of threads natural and man-made that have been deliberately arranged to create an almost infinite variety of patterns. The fabrics take on an incredibly sensual quality that belies the mechanical method by which they were produced. Because they are juxtaposed with the cloth pieces, the graphic prints are seen as magnifications of the patterns that had been created by the interweaving of threads...
...primary victim here is a young Senator, cut whole from the Kennedy cloth, whose brief appearance before he is done in hardly makes him seem a threat to any imaginable aspect of the status quo. Still, witnesses to the crime start dying at a rate far exceeding actuarial probability, thus arousing the suspicions of a newsman of counterculturish leanings. Played with a certain cheeky energy by Warren Beatty. the reporter soon becomes a target himself, then goes underground the better to penetrate an industrial security organization that apparently supplied the hit men for this series of crimes...
...puritanical military regime had prosecuted a girl from Ipanema who went topless, and then permanently prohibited mammary nudity. Undaunted, the girls of Rio invented the String-known in Brazil as the Tonga-which is derived from an ancient Indian loincloth and consists of two minuscule triangles of cloth joined by a cord over either hip. The Tanga is a huge hit with Rio girl watchers because it bares a large part of the derriere-Brazilian males tend to be nádega (buttock) rather than peito (breast) admirers. The String spread to Italy a while...
That so peaceful a union should suddenly turn militant underscores the ominous strains that inflation is setting up in labor-management relations after a long period of worker docility. The strikers, who include cloth cutters, buttonhole makers, sewing-machine operators, pattern makers and tailors, now earn an average of $3.60 an hour, or roughly $135 a week. They are demanding an increase of $1.10 an hour, or a startling 30%, over three years-50? the first year, and 30? for each of the next two. On top of that, the Amalgamated demands an escalator clause that would raise wages further...