Word: cutaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...B.W.R. Training Center has all the marks of a topnotch engineering school. Cutaway reactor models line its cinder-block corridors. Classrooms contain charts, overhead projectors and closed-circuit TV systems. Instructors, identified by the hand calculators in their shirt pockets, lecture on everything from nuclear physics and chemistry to radiation safety. But students look older, more intent than most collegians...
Inside the court, every seat was taken by the time the principals began arriving. Archibald Cox, Harvard law professor, former Solicitor General and special Watergate prosecutor, was resplendent in black cutaway, striped tie and a matching gray crew cut. So was Wade McCree, in the Solicitor General's traditional morning coat. At precisely 10 that Wednesday morning, the court clerk intoned "Oyez, oyez," and the nine black-robed Justices suddenly appeared from behind red velvet curtains and settled into their seats at the elevated bench. The stage was set for what could turn out to be the most important...
...Most of the parade route will be open to the public, free of charge; the usual tickets, at as much as $50, will not be required. When he is sworn in as President, Jimmy Carter will wear a dark business suit rather than a formal cutaway...
...Kluger also provides a contrapuntal portrait of John W. Davis, who ran for the Democrats against Calvin Coolidge in 1924. A brilliant lawyer who served as counsel to Eugene Debs, Alger Hiss and Robert Oppenheimer, Davis was also what Kluger calls a "gentleman racist." At 80, wearing a cutaway, he appeared before the Supreme Court defending segregation by ingenious psychological and legal arguments...
...sleuth on TV's 77 Sunset Strip and the husband-manager of Actress Ann-Margret for the past eight years. So, in an upcoming television special titled Ann-Margret Smith, the pair will say their vows once more, this time with the groom in top hat and gray cutaway and the bride in white. That done, they will cycle into the sunset, tin cans trailing behind their Harley-Davidson. "Weddings are more fun the second time around, especially with the same man," claimed the again bride-to-be. Said Smith: "Maybe that's something Liz Taylor would understand...