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...businessmen, technicians, engineers and salesmen swarm over the globe?inspecting, surveying, planning, advising, bargaining, buying and selling. One group is now in Hanoi, working on an agreement to help the North Vietnamese set up a shipping firm, textile plant and garment factory. In Zambia, geologists are surveying copper fields. On Vancouver Island, lumber men are demonstrating a new technique for cutting timber that used to be considered waste. Other groups are supervising production of Honda motorbikes in Brussels, studying sites for a hotel in Alaska and building a steel mill in South Africa, where the Japanese are considered honorary-whites...
...Bill Blass terms "the sexy vulgarity" of the '40s. Hot pants? You might have been arrested for calling them that, but there they were 30 years ago. "Most of the styles you see today I've worn already," remarks Rita Hayworth, who once helped make famous a garment called "shorts...
Shrewd Sense. After women gained the vote in 1920 Miss Luscomb became a charter member of the League of Women Voters. She cast her first presidential ballot in 1920 for Socialist Candidate Eugene Debs. Soon she was involved in the labor movement, inspecting the shops operated by the garment trade. Miss Luscomb's shrewd sense of revolutionary tactics-which are still being copied by her spiritual descendants- helped rectify dismal working conditions. "I got four women who were distinguished Bostonians to go to the factories with me. When the newspapers printed their report, believe me, the state officials came...
Murder. The White House, Moynihan charged, had not responded when opportunities arose to dispel suspicion: "This was why I was so concerned at the time about the charge that the Black Panthers were being exterminated. I could get no one, save [Special Consultant to the President] Len Garment, to see how dreadfully potent a charge this was against you. The charge was being made that your Administration was carrying out a systematic plan of political murder designed to wipe out a political party. The charge was groundless, which I could soon enough establish to my own satisfaction. But what...
...skits pasted together, each starring Carol Channing and Sid Caesar. In one, Caesar is a house painter and Channing a monied, molting society lovebird who is having the apartment redone for her cynical young lover. Guess who gets to use the bed? In another skit Caesar is a gamy garment-district mogul who sweeps Channing off the dance floor at Roseland. Since both are in their 70s, desire exceeds potency, and the two compromise on an antiquarian verbal waltz...