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...JUST WHAT was Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko trying to tell us when he wore grey flannel to his session with President Reagan? Was that a sign that the Soviets were willing to accept drastic reductions in vodka stockpiles--only, of course, in return for equivalent cuts in U.S. Gold Medalists? Had he been able to convince President Reagan to countenance competing assymetries--that is to acknowledge that the Soviet lead in vodka did not amount to first-strike capability, but was instead neatly balanced off by, at least this year, American Olympic athletes...
...that there is a lack of knowledge about Dallas" Dallas Mayor A. Starke Taylor Jr. wants to send forth a truer picture too. "There are places in the world where people think we're still cowboys here, wearing boots and hats" So the truth: they wear pinstripes, gray flannel in season, wing-tipped cordovans, tassled loafers; sunup brings the thump of the Wall Street Journal at the foot of the drive...
...kitchen appliances; Sunbeam provides irons; Singer makes Craftsman electric drills; Sanyo, Hitachi and Toshiba produce Sears television sets, stereos and videocassette recorders. Most of the suppliers, though, are unknown outside their industries, firms like Irwin B. Schwabe of Great Neck, N.Y., a shirt supplier and the largest maker of flannel shirts...
...photographs of his high school's production of Fiddler, Sabath looks almost the same as he does on stage at Kirkland House five years later. He wears the same rust vest and flannel shirt belonging to his father. Although the Tevye's of then and now may appear similar, Sabath's portrayal of them is not the same. "Since I had already learned the lines I was able to concentrate more on the character and what he was experiencing," Sabath notes...
...their grey flannel suits and into their lacrosse skirts, the biggest names in Harvard women's lax history will try to conjure up a few memories when they try to conjure up a win in the all-afternoon reunion...