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...were on display, he quipped, "Is this the supermarket?" To every family accompanied by children, he announced proudly that he and Lady Bird have a couple of teen-age daughters back home. When the natives expressed their thanks for his visit, L.B.J. allowed, "This is communication like in the garment district in New York or in Johnson City, Texas...
...reports of an abortive kidnap plot against Daughter Caroline, inevitably made further news with her Easter wardrobe selections. She appeared scarved, barelegged and besandaled at Good Friday services. For Sunday she had assembled her standard pillbox hat-in blue straw-and matching two-piece, silk-shantung dress. For breathless garment-industry tycoons tilting at windfalls, Jackie provided only one departure from the past: three-quarter-length sleeves...
Wherever there is opportunity, there is anxiety: it is just as severe in the ivied halls of research institutions as it is in the garment district?or in some Government offices. And it is far more severe than it used to be on farms. Big business, on the other hand, is not, as often described, a single pail of anxiously writhing worms. Some giant corporations have become "settled societies" of their own, in which the rungs of the promotion ladder are neatly numbered and everybody knows when he may have his chance to step up. But in advertising, communications...
anding in the middle of New York's garment district, Manhattan ter has lent its shelter and its ellent acoustics to a wide variety adical movements. Earl Browder to hold forth there in the hey- of the Party; both the Fur kers and the staunchly antiinist Garment Workers met e to inveigh against the bosses, inst capitalism, and against each r. Even the murals on the walls quare-jawed, muscular proletar- "building the industry of rica" -- call to mind the days tenement-dwellers transcend- the squalidness of their daily while singing "We Shall Not Moved...
...Among the members: Union Presidents George Meany (A.F.L.-C.I.O.), Walter Reuther (Auto Workers), David McDonald (Steel workers), David Dubinsky (Ladies' Garment Workers); Company Chief Executives Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM), Henry Ford II (Ford Motor), J. Spencer Love (Burlington Industries), Joseph Block (Inland Steel); President Clark Kerr of the University of California...