Word: dress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strongest argument against RUS is that it sets the stage for a full-dress battle, with wild-eyed students lined up against their more level-headed elders. An approach of this nature, opponents of RUS reason, is hardly likely to win over the Council. But this analysis has already proven itself wrong. RUS has the support of a number of very level-headed alumnae...
...word, "Christmasy." Holly and topiary trees flecked with "teeny white lights" will adorn the East Room. Seven attendants in gowns of Goya red will vie for the eye with the 32-member Marine Band's scarlet tunics. The groom, Marine Captain Charles Robb, 28, will wear his dress blues. He has had little say in the preparations. "Mostly, he's chief in charge of the honeymoon," Mrs. Abell explains...
Bess Abell is admirably qualified to organize White House social functions. The daughter of former Kentucky Governor (and later U.S. Senator) Earle Clements, she supervised 34 state luncheons and dinners this year alone, and prepared Luci Baines Nugent's wedding last year. "Luci's was a dress rehearsal for Lynda's wedding," she says. Formal weddings are a vicarious thrill for Mrs. Abell: she eloped with Attorney Tyler Abell, 35, a former Assistant Postmaster General. "Working on these two weddings," says Bess, "has given me no regrets...
From Oxford to Oxford. The chain began in 1864, when John Lewis, a buyer of silk and dress materials, opened a shop in London's Oxford Street. Legend has it that his son Spedan, while checking the books one day, found the family was earning more than the entire roster of employees. He devised a profit-sharing scheme, and in 1929 started paying "partnership benefits" to all. With no common shares issued, about half the profits are paid out annually in bonuses and nonvoting shares to em ployees, amounting to about 15% of their salaries. Through councils in each...
During the past decade, while British department stores share of retail trade was shrinking, John Lewis' sales rocketed 130%, to $154 million in 1966. Sales are up another 7% and profits up 40% in the first half of this year. In household goods and dress materials no British store can match the John Lewis record for sales per square foot of space. An unusual trading policy and an even rarer company structure, in which all 17,000 employees are "partners" sharing in profits, have paid off handsomely...