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...CLOTHES. Around 1000 B.C. the nomads of Central Asia found that their simple cloth or hide wraps were uncomfortable on horseback; so they invented trousers. Trousers were so closely associated with barbarians that when some Romans began sporting them an imperial edict was issued against their use. As late as 1814 the Duke of Wellington was refused admission to his club because he wore trousers. Cuffs on trousers first appeared in New York City near the end of the 19th century after an Englishman on his way to a fashionable wedding was caught in a downpour and turned...
...instinct for money-making innovations. Trippe was the first to order the 490-passenger Boeing 747 -some $525 million worth-for delivery starting in 1969. But even Trippe can have problems. The most notable: Pan Am flies the rest of the way around the world, but, by Government edict, its planes cannot take customers across the U.S. Pan Am has long argued that it should be permitted continental pickup rights. Last week a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner agreed, recommended that Pan Am be allowed to carry passengers between the East and West coasts on flights to and from Europe, with...
...this made at least one point perfectly plain: even though the Senate subcommittee rates credit for stimulating interest in safety among both auto manufacturers and buyers, the auto industry has been spending a lot of money for quite a while to make repairs it deemed needful without any edict from Capitol Hill or any publicity...
...Chicago these days, the visiting businessman has plenty of time for business. By edict of Police Superintendent Orlando Wilson, the once racy North Side is as dead as Gomorrah. Calumet City, thanks to another crusading police chief, has only darkened flesh parlors to show for its long career as Chicago's sin suburb. Even Al Capone's Cicero has quieted down. No matter. If he insists on drinking life to the lees, the conventioneer can still find paradise enow an hour away in Gary or East Chicago, across the state line in Indiana's gamy, grimy Lake...
...Senate Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure, which has been holding hearings on electronic snooping for the past year, approved the ruling, but maintains that federal laws are still needed to outlaw such practices entirely. Meanwhile, the FCC edict will help, as Chairman E. William Henry put it, to protect "the little man from...