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...Radcliffe resident tutor pouted yesterday that while married tutors will now have to pay for their spouses, single ones will still get their extracurricular affairs on the cuff...
...important functionary. His decade of influence was an eventful one on Capitol Hill, and Baker was able to participate in legislative history while enriching himself through private business dealings. The scandal that broke in 1963 instantly converted his status from that of all-American striver to one of cuff-linked corruptor. Last week, four years after his conviction for income tax evasion, conspiracy to defraud the Government and theft, he began a one-to three-year prison term. Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington bureau chief, found Baker remarkably mellow before parting with his freedom. Sidey's report...
...died "in his father's country house" of "bronchopneumonia." Adds Stowell: "I have seen a photograph of my suspect which suggests paranoia by the extravagance of his dress ... He is wearing a 4-in. to 4½-in. stiff starched collar and is showing two inches of shirt-cuff at each wrist. (I was told that he was given the nickname of 'Collar and Cuffs...
...peace hieroglyphic is ubiquitous. It has appeared hanging around the necks of G.I.s in Viet Nam; on a fast-selling line of women's dresses; fashioned into belt buckles, cuff links, rings and tie clasps. Lately, two firms have tried separately to register the symbol as a commercial trademark (the U.S. Patent Office has ruled that out). An Alexandria, Va., firm is now marketing a clip-on typewriter key bearing the symbol. One prospective customer is Sally Sanders, a reporter for the Redding, Conn., Pilot. She plans to type it at the end of her copy instead...
...Making up names like Asia mynah, cuff lynx, and piranha old gray bonnet isn't aardvark...