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...years after he came to power, Zahir Shah decreed the beginning of formal economic planning and began to move his 15 million subjects on the road to democracy. He ruled that the chadri, a tentlike garment that makes women look like ambulatory potato sacks, need no longer be compulsory garb. In 1964, he promulgated a new constitution that in the long run, as its institutions evolve, will considerably reduce his own power. A year later, following the country's first free elections, the 216-seat Wolesi Jirga, or parliament, came into existence. Afghanistan seemed well on the way into...
...monk, I would say that Walter Holmes's "minimedievals" [July 5] look a lot better than our "maximedievals." I also believe that Monsignor Joseph Snee's remark was unjust and that he should examine his own morals and not those of women who wear the latest mod garb...
...Award of the Year, Decade and Century," teenagers across the country latched onto the dresses by the rackful. Commented Monsignor Joseph T.V. Snee, who oversees all 8,000 Catholic nuns in the Archdiocese of New York: "If the women of our times have now decided to imitate the religious garb of our sisters, I sure wish they would also try to imitate their habits-especially those of modesty, purity and chastity...
...Communists tried to reinforce their infiltrated units inside the city; they massed troops that had marched overnight from Cambodia in groups of five and six and attempted to slip them through the ring of allied troops around the city. One group of Viet Cong women dressed in semimilitary garb was captured as it brazenly tried to march across a bridge into Saigon. Communist units approached Saigon from three directions and everywhere were beaten back. One force coming from the west was forced by U.S. armor into open swampland, where they were cut down by jet fighter-bombers and helicopters...
...sparked an otherwise lack-lustre orchestra. Sopranos Jane Devitt and Made-laine Rembock displayed powerful but well-controlled voices, while alto Gail Feinberg sang everything with a pubescent, lower-class tone that was instant comic relief. Tenor Larry Bakst, looking more embarrassed than most in his sparse neo-Athenian garb, nonetheless gave out a pure, well-modulated Russell Oberlin-like sound that was the surprise joy of the evening. The chorus acquitted itself energetically, though its acting and stage deportment matched the sophistication of dollar-a-day extras in Italian gladiator flicks...