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Half Loaded. The minor members of the company were no less help to the cause of Afro-Anglo-American friendship. One evening after the day's shooting, for example, American Negro Actor Raymond St. Jacques wandered into the Plage bar dressed in a gaudy, pajama-like African garment called a sapara, accented by a gold earring in his left ear. A half-loaded American businessman turned to his drinking companion and said loudly, "Hey! Look how colorful that...
...wants or needs a computer by his bedside, but almost everyone will soon be getting new benefits from a versatile array of advanced computers-recently brought to market or ready to come off the drawing boards-that are designed to serve fields as varied as medicine, defense, transportation and garment making. Items...
David Dubinsky, L.H.D., retired president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. His prophetic fury in a righteous cause is as legendary and as potent as a summer storm, a whirlwind followed by lambent sunshine...
...York -namely, cops-their efforts at selecting something new for Luci's trousseau proved more trying. With about as much secrecy as surrounds a National Security Council meeting, the ladies held court in the 34th floor Presidential Suite of the Carlyle Hotel, while dress designers laden with garment bags swished in past lines of cold-eyed Secret Service men. No word of what Luci chose in the way of a gown was permitted to leak out to the expectant reporters in the lobby, and Lady Bird was triumphant at having kept them in the dark...
...Populist potentates who had done much to lead the poor and exploited into the affluent society, it was time to step down. Grizzled, rotund David Dubinsky, for 34 turbulent years president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and bluff, white-thatched James G. Fatten, fiery head of the National Farmers Union for the past quarter-century, both retired last week, turning over their flourishing organizations to less flamboyant men noted more for managerial than messianic talents...