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...TIME's hair-shirt makers offer another garment-of American Indian woof [Feb. 9]. But, rather than being "more than the conscience can bear . . . the demands of yet one more minority" beget a weariness from wailing. The Federal Government "spends only $500 million a year on aid to Indians...
American Jewish workers-be they painters, garment workers, or cigar makers-discovered their collective strength not by membership in equivalents of respectable Hillel Societies but by joining, and often leading, their non-Jewish brothers in militant labor organizations. The uprooted, first-generation Jewish immigrants aligned by choice and by necessity with other workers for "the right to live in dignity" (social, political and economic). In helping to build the American labor movement, they gained a foothold for themselves and their families in the new land. As liberal activists, socialists, and Communists, many of them, together with their children, continued...
...discomfort. The procession glided to the comforting music of the horses' regularly failing hoofs on the settled dust. The Sun Shines Bright. A film about the still, silent, unsentimental consolation of a great man's passing, and the reciprocity of smiles urging faces to a communion of regard. The garment of the people's gentle ruth was placed about him. The cortege trailed to higher ground. And the strife of the vanity of melancholy was dissolved in lucid order...
Yours for shaping up, I. M. Garment, President Uptight Underwear...
...garment in question is a stretch-nylon body stocking that covers everything but the head and hands of the wearer and sells for $9 to $14. "Covers" is an exaggeration, as the ads make clear: "No interruptions to mar the lovely line of you," and "Reveals what it covers." The obvious suggestion is that the wearer need not, indeed should not burden her body with such conventional and "confining" undergarments as brassieres, girdles, panties and hosiery...