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...Cyprus, the Viet Nam War, the Six-Day War in the Middle East and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. So it was with some trepidation that Forbath, now posted to the New York bureau, set out to help report this week's cover story on John Fairchild, publisher of Women's Wear Daily and ardent promoter of the controversial midiskirt. "I'm rediscovering America," says Forbath. "I found the fashion world more alien to me than Africa, Southeast Asia or Eastern Europe...
Nonetheless, Forbath's task proved fascinating and enjoyable. "Fairchild is a journalist, so he recognizes journalists' problems," says Forbath-even though there was one major surprise. He had expected Fairchild to practice the swinging, trendy life-style that his paper promotes so assiduously. Not so. Forbath discovered that his subject "hardly seems to take the scene seriously." Indeed, Forbath followed Fairchild through a full week in Manhattan, then traveled to Bermuda to spend a weekend with him and his family at their seaside home. It was a happily low-key, relaxed few days. And Mrs. Fairchild, Forbath found...
...center of arguments over new styles. In the case of the midi, however, the dominant force is a publisher, the press lord of a tiny trade-journal fiefdom that churns out eight publications that few Americans have ever heard of?except for one. He is John Burr Fairchild, 43, the head of Fairchild Publications and the boss of Women's Wear Daily, the terror tabloid of the fashion world. Fairchild is a puzzling study of opposites. Though the columns of WWD are filled with the social doings of what he calls the "Beautiful People," he resolutely shuns their company...
Elsewhere some 150 commercial and industrial enterprises, among them General Dynamics and Fairchild Camera, have moved onto Indian reservations, enticed by the freedom from real estate taxes accorded reservation enterprises ?and by cheap labor. They provide jobs and profits for individual Indians as well as their tribes. Simpson Cox, a white Phoenix lawyer, has spent 22 years with the Gila River Pima-Maricopa Indians, successfully pressing the Government to compensate the tribe fairly for confiscating their lands. He has helped them build industrial parks, a tourist center, a trade school, farms, community centers and an airstrip...
...came to town. Five years later, Halaby took his first plane ride in an OX 5 Travel Air and enrolled in a flying course. He borrowed $6,500 from his parents?who ran an art shop on the top floor of the Neiman-Marcus department store?to buy a Fairchild 24 sports plane, and kept on flying through college days at Stanford, the University of Michigan and Yale Law School (LL.B., '40). During World War II, Halaby helped organize the Navy's test-pilot school at Patuxent River, Md., and flew the world's first combat jet, a captured German...