Word: depending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Amanda Burden was named to the Ten Best-Dressed list last year at the age of 22, she exclaimed, "But I buy everything off the racks at Bendel's." She was doing what comes naturally. No longer does the American society woman depend on Paris to supply her clothes. U.S. fashion can boast an elite handful of internationally famous "name" designers whose clothes, at their best, are as genuinely original as anything Paris has to offer. Lauren Bacall likes almost anything done by Manhattan's Norell, though she feels that Chanel has "a great look...
...move around in this eye-popping urbanized sprawl, Angelenos depend almost completely on the auto. Fifty-five percent of downtown Los Angeles is given over to cars-in space occupied by freeways, offstreet parking and streets-and nearly 500 miles of freeways snake their way through the city's environs. Los Angeles County now has 3,900,000 autos for a population of 7,000,000, and the number is growing faster than the human population. There is little public transport; less than 8% of Angelenos travel to and from work by public transport v. 54% of New Yorkers...
...Frankly Ludicrous." Understandably, the commission report stirred up dissent. Stocks of TV companies, whose revenues depend heavily on soap ads, plunged on the London exchange. Said Lever Chairman Edward Brough, 48; "Exercising her choice in a free market, the British housewife has struck a good balance between the high cost of unlimited choice and the low cost of no choice at all." P. & G. pointed out that detergent prices have gone up only 8% in the last seven years, as against 18% for the whole retail price index. Said London's weekly Observer: "The TV commercials are sickening...
Along with his aggressiveness, U.S. Air Force Major James Kasler has always been admired for fierce loyalty to his buddies in time of trouble. "I know if I get in a jam," said a fellow pilot recently, "I'm going to get help. I can depend on Kasler." Last week loyalty brought disaster to Jim Kasler, the "one-man Air Force" who was fast becoming the most famous pilot over-North Viet Nam (TIME...
...police are grimly optimistic about learning to live with Miranda. "What do you mean, 'Can we?' " asks Florida Sheriff George Leppig. "We have to; it's the law of the land." Another Florida police official argues that Miranda will sharpen sleuthing by "getting the guys who depend on confessions off their duffs" and out searching for better evidence. Facing up to harder work than ever, a veteran Manhattan detective says that Miranda "of necessity makes us resort to the sciences." While all this may produce better policemen, it also requires more policemen-and far higher pay than...