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...potential brides drop in every day, and 150 on Saturdays. A staff of 100 brings in samples from a stock of some 800 model bridal gowns, averaging $1,200 in price and topping out around $10,000. "Every girl is special, beautiful," insists Owner Hedda Kleinfeld Schapter. "These are custom dresses for noncustom $ people. How could a career girl come in here wearing Perry Ellis and accept anything less...
Vorenberg, as is his custom, refused any commment on the faculty decision and on Kennedy's charge of political motivation in the Tarullo decision...
...stern message about the Reagan Administration's resolve to plug leaks. Pillsbury's defenders suggest that he spoke out to influence policy, not jeopardize national security. Says Morton Halperin, legislative director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Washington office: "Leaking for policy reasons is an established Washington custom...
...give them a clean look from shore and thus not offend environmentalists. Lime green is also the shade for uniforms that all personnel must wear after coming off the drilling floor. No one in work clothes is permitted in the living quarters; that is not a standard drilling-rig custom but rather a Keydril requirement --one that, like having women aboard, is considered a civilizing and softening touch...
...force, intruded upon the Soviets' internationally accepted twelve-mile territorial waters, the Navy said that the action was "neither defiant nor provocative." By charting a course that cut through Soviet waters along a curving peninsula, the vessels were merely exercising a "right of innocent passage" long accepted under maritime custom--and by the Soviet Union itself. Nonetheless, U.S. Charge d'Affaires Richard Combs was summoned to the Soviet Foreign Ministry in Moscow and handed a protest note. Rather than an "innocent passage," said a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, the U.S. action was "a provocative passage, a clear violation of Soviet...