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...political obituaries, New York City's Republican Mayoralty Candidate Louis Lefkowitz refused to play dead. Last week, with the Nov. 7 election against Democratic Incumbent Robert Wagner drawing near, Lefkowitz tirelessly continued to stump the city's five boroughs, pleaded his case before doctors and flower merchants, garment makers and university professors...
...Remove clothing only if it will lift off easily. And cut it away-"Never spare the garment; spare the skin...
...last week, New York City's voters seemed almost as confused as the can didates. The Times, reporting on a Levitt foray into the garment district, discovered that many voters still did not know who the state controller was-and that those who recalled the name thought he was Lefkowitz. Levitt was regarded as a slight favorite in the Democratic primary on the basis that a small turnout (400,000 or less) would enable his organization support to pull him through. But even if Wagner is defeated in the primary, he will still be the nominee of the Liberal...
...Meany must not have looked very far, for throughout the four-day conference - held at Unity House, the 1,000-acre Pennsylvania resort owned by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union -signs of rift were all over the premises. On the excuse that he had to fire the opening salvos of the United Auto Workers' contract battle in Detroit (see BUSINESS), A.F.L.-C.I.O. Vice President Walter Reuther, who has long been at odds with Meany, snubbed the entire meeting; labor experts were quick to note that Reuther had set the timetable for his contract negotiations long after...
Apotheosis at Versailles. Only once, at a reception for the ladies of the press at the American embassy, did the First Lady let her aplomb slip slightly for a moment. The controversy, as usual, was over clothes. A reporter from Women's Wear Daily, the U.S. garment industry's trade paper, asked if she ever read the publication. Jackie, sensitive to W.W.D.'s criticism of her preference for French clothiers, bridled. "Hardly ever?any more," she replied. The reporter persisted: Didn't she ever glance at Women's Wear Daily? Said Jackie, frost creeping into her voice...