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...double-breasted, eggshell blue, worsted herringbone suit; the candy-striped, English-cuffed, high-necked Herbert Hoover shirt; the custom-made blue suede monk strap loafers. It is hard for Journalist Tom Wolfe, 50, (The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby; The Right Stuff) to keep his identity under his hat, especially when it is a hand-blocked and brushed blue felt bowler like the one he is sporting in front of the studiously garish former Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art on Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The Wolfe in chic clothing, having savaged much of the modern art world...
Many of the regulations halted by the 60-day freeze are still being blocked pending further study by the Administration. The Department of Education's rules calling for custom-tailored educational programs for handicapped students are being reviewed. The Department of Health and Human Services regulations that impede the speedy testing of new consumer drugs are also under study. At the Interior Department, rules that drive up the cost of strip-mining coal are being rethought. The Administration is also looking into possible changes in the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act, which increases the cost of Government construction projects...
...hard to recognize him without his custom-made porkpie hat and Dick Tracy suits, but that almost affable-looking skipper is former Tough Guy Mickey Spillane. Though he still has a mug that would halt traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike, it may be that the gravel-voiced master of hard-boiled detective fiction has finally gone soft. Spillane, 63, has taken to writing children's books. His first, The Day the Sea Rolled Back (Bantam, $1.75), is about two boys on a search for buried treasure. They run into a couple of villains who might have felt...
Probe International, a small Stamford, Conn., firm headed by Benjamin Weiner, a former foreign service officer, offers its own custom-tailored reports. When one American multinational asked Weiner to determine whether it was safe to set up an assembly plant in Sri Lanka, he spent months interviewing government officials and members of the opposition party in the capital of Colombo, then advised going ahead, though he cautioned that both the regime in power and the opposition should first make it clear that they would actually welcome the project...
...between the country's powerful Orthodox Jews and those who hew to more liberal religious views, or simply to secular values. The state is secular, but in personal matters the strict judgments of the Orthodox Rabbinates rule, a hangover from the years when the British, following Ottoman Empire custom, left such powers in the hands of local religious leaders. Thus marriage, divorce, inheritance, adoption-all are under the jurisdiction of the religious, not civil, courts. The 250,000 Orthodox Jews wield a political clout out of proportion to their numbers. Part of that influence is due to the swing...