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Deciding to trade one risk for another, NASA, without fanfare, changed its recovery plan. While Apollo 11 is still in the ocean, the hatch will be opened. As the astronauts emerge and climb aboard an attached raft, each will slip into a "biological isolation garment" brought along by a frogman who will be similarly outfitted. The suit is equipped with a filter that should block any organisms that the astronauts exhale. After a helicopter ride to the carrier deck, they will enter the van and follow the original quarantine plans...
...Geoffrey Beene predicts that "by the year 2000, women will be wearing only pants." There is one thing that men can do to retaliate: stop wearing pants themselves. Paris Couturier Pierre Cardin expects them to do just that. Last month, when he showed his new menswear collection, the first garment displayed was a sleeveless jumper designed to be worn over high vinyl boots. In other words, a dress...
...Manufacturers have long since stopped using mercury in the production of men's hats, thus eliminating the "hatter's shakes" disease that may well have accounted for the peculiar behavior of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Until the problem was brought under control recently, other garment workers faced a potential health danger from inhaling fumes from the formaldehyde contained in permanent-press fabrics. According to an official government compilation, U.S. workers are exposed to no fewer than 182 "hazardous agents," ranging from acetaldehyde (used in making mirrors) to zirconium compounds (used in manufacturing deodorants). Even secretaries...
...country" with its fortified villages built of clay that melts like chocolate in a heavy rain. Or they may spend the day shopping in the souks of Fez or Marrakesh, haggling for bargains in brightly patterned Moroccan rugs, ornate silver jewelry or silk brocade caftans-the flowing, T-shaped garment traditionally worn by Moroccan women relaxing at home...
...idea of presenting Nixon's Cabinet nominations on TV had been kicked around by the staff at his Pierre Hotel headquarters in Manhattan for several weeks, and one of its staunchest advocates was Law Partner Leonard Garment-top media adviser in the campaign and one of the men who devised the question-and-answer TV format that Nixon used to good effect around the U.S. CBS Executive Frank Shakespeare, another Nixon TV counselor, hurried back from a Rio de Janeiro va cation early in the week and had the show ready to go on camera in a hectic...