Word: jerseys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles L. Horstman of Westfield, New Jersey, has conceived a plan for a student conference, "Urban Futures USA," which will convene at Rice next March to project ideas on "The City...
...House, New Jersey Democrat Charles S. Joelson was not heartened when told that gun-control foes "could live with" the watered-down bill. "I suggest," he chided his colleagues, "that tens of thousands of Americans can die with...
This fall, an estimated 300 graduates of the Academies of Transition will go on to a third and final level, at either New Jersey's privately endowed Newark Prep or the Urban League's Harlem Prep. Founded last October and already accredited, Harlem Prep has its own school song, navy blue blazers and an unmistakable esprit, de corps. Both schools have thus far sent 96 former dropouts to college...
...Detroit's decorous J. L. Hudson Co. department store has begun allowing salesmen to wear sport coats instead of suits. Xerox insists on tonsorial tidiness, but it has permitted one of its California service technicians to affect a handlebar mustache because "it looks quite sophisticated on him." At Jersey Standard, well-cultivated sideburns are sprouting at the middle-management level. IBM, long a bastion of conservatism, has relaxed its unwritten requirement that men wear white shirts only, even though it is far from ready for the Nehru jacket...
...hats to work has been abandoned, but sport coats remain strictly taboo. San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank prohibits beards, even though, admits one officer, "our founders wore them." Many secretaries employed in lower Manhattan's financial district live with their parents in Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey, thus dress with far more restraint than their emancipated counterparts working in the midtown area. "That's why," says a broker at Lehman Bros.' Wall Street area office, "I love to be invited to lunch uptown...