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...answer did not satisfy Lord Alexander. As far as he is concerned, Anglican Communion already resembles too closely the Roman Catholic Mass; and the measure to permit the use of the alb (a long-sleeved white tunic), the chasuble (a poncholike garment), the amice (a linen neckcloth) and the maniple (a band of cloth worn on the left arm) would strengthen what the London Times called a "drift toward the Roman Catholic form of service...
Moviegoers chuckled some years ago when Alec Guinness, as The Man in the White Suit, invented an indestructible garment, only to be frustrated by businessmen shocked at its non-obsolescence. The indestructible suit is still a fantasy, but something almost as good is on the way. This one will not stretch or shrink, is impervious to stains and moths, goes from soaking wet to bone-dry in seconds, holds a press and defies wrinkles. It will be made of fiber glass, a versatile material that is beginning to be used in hundreds of consumer items after years of narrow specialization...
...newspapers as they rushed into the St. Regis Hotel. Among them were Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Arthur Goldberg, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Anthony Celebrezze. Also on hand was a galaxy of diversified doers: International Ladies Garment Workers Union President David Dubinsky, Department Store Magnate Bernard Gimbel, Mrs. Ernest Hemingway, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, Writer-Pundit Theodore White, Actor Fredric March, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and Artist William Walton. The President sat next to Jackie at the dinner, visited with Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, but made...
...stiff." At one point, he chortled, "Jonathan-now what kind of a name is that for The Bronx? And look at his middle name-Brewster-isn't that pathetic?" Bingham indeed seemed out of place in The Bronx, which in considerable part is a low-income land of garment workers and small shopkeepers, of tenements and Bronx cheer. A slim, silver-haired, impeccably tailored product of Groton and Yale, Bingham has been for the past three years a U.S. representative to the United Nations...
Poverty. Finally, Johnson flew to New York to address the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union on the 50th anniversary of its Health Center and became the Defender of the Downtrodden and the Crusader Against Poverty. Said he: "We will help the underprivileged and the underpaid by extending minimum wage and unemployment compensation. We have mounted an attack upon the final fortresses of poverty. We will continue the hundred years' struggle to give every American-of every race and color-equal opportunity in American society...