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...with a turtleneck sweater and later accoutered for evening by removing the sweater, unzipping to the cleavage and adding jewelry. Like blue jeans, jumpsuits came to fashion from the wharves and workshops of America-and became modish in Europe. It was after a visit to Paris last spring that Kal Ruttenstein, a Bloomingdale's executive, saw how Parisians were snapping them up. "It's a lot of look at a relatively little price," says Ruttenstein. "It's for the young or young-thinking woman, the fashion or contemporary customer." Adds Manhattan's Norma Kamali...
With the advent of home rule, Greenlandic, an Eskimo tongue, replaces Danish as the official language, and towns now have new names. Godthaab (Good Hope in Danish) becomes Nûk, which means Point, after the capital's peninsular location. Greenland is now Kalâtdlit-Nunât, or Land of the People. But new names do not solve old social problems, and Greenland's are serious...
...just two native-born doctors and one dentist (as well as only three lawyers). Asked whether the alcohol and VD problems could be solved, one of the local doctors pondered and said, "Immaqa" (maybe). At the end of her home rule speech the Queen said: "Gûtip Kalâtdlit-Nunât sianigiliuk " (God bless Greenland). The islanders will need more than fond benedictions if they are to make a success of their semisovereign future...
Among the top straw-poll choices for Commencement Speaker: 1) The Shah of Iran; 2) Liza Minelli; 3) Neil Armstrong; 4) Pope Paul; 5) Sherman Holcombe; 6) Halston; 7)KAL; 8) Elvis Costello...
James C. Thompson, curator of the Nieman Fellows, announces the selection of this year's fellowship recipients. The winners include William Colby. Richard Helms, Jason Robards, John Travolta, Chuck Barris, KAL, Peter Marshall, Paul (Secret Square) Lynde, and Buffalo Bob Smith...