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...years spent much of his time hunting and golfing. But in 1955, 22 years after he came to power, Zahir Shah decreed the beginning of formal economic planning and began to move his 15 million subjects on the road to democracy. He ruled that the chadri, a tentlike garment that makes women look like ambulatory potato sacks, need no longer be compulsory garb. In 1964, he promulgated a new constitution that in the long run, as its institutions evolve, will considerably reduce his own power. A year later, following the country's first free elections, the 216-seat Wolesi...
Antlers in the Chair. During rare moments of inactivity in his Manhattan home-an elegantly eccentric converted loft in the garment district-Schneider sometimes lapses into a Dostoevskian depression at the thought that his generation and its values are passing. "We had a respect-for father and mother, for our teachers, for the universe," he muses. "From that came a certain discipline. That is what I miss." The self-indulgent style of some of the youngsters coming up in today's foundation-fed music world appalls him. "If they wear sunglasses, long hair and have dirty fingernails...
Died. Sol A. Rosenblatt, 67, New York lawyer, who handled the marital affairs of the famous, was equally known as the impartial arbitrator of the city's fractious garment industry from 1935 to 1940, and from 1947 until his death; of a heart attack; in Biarritz, France. Though Rosenblatt represented such contestants as Stavros Niarchos and Alfred Vanderbilt in divorce suits, family peace was his main concern-and it was nowhere more evident than in the garment district, where his quiet good sense settled many strikes and staved off many others. Spain, where he maintained a home...
...conventions in Minnesota, hitherto believed safe territory for McCarthy, chose enough Humphrey-leaning representatives to the June state convention to assure the Vice President of a large majority of the state's 52 delegate votes in August. The executive board of the 450,000-member International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, based in Kennedy's New York City, urged Humphrey to become an announced candidate...
...Frontlash campaign will officially begin on Monday afternoon with a speech to an Italian-speaking local of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in Waltham...