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...chemise look is a many-splendored thing. It comes in the one-piece dress, in two-pieces dresses, and in one-piece dresses that look like two. The new subtle shape is available in knitted dresses which pull over the head like a sweater --all in one piece. These have joined the ranks of increasingly-popular knit dresses of all kinds...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: New Chemise Spells "Subtle Sex" | 12/10/1957 | See Source »

Nerve center of the system is Ent Air Force Base (named for the late Major General Uzal G. Ent) in Colorado Springs, where some 700 Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corp officers and 1,500 enlisted men, along with about 40 Canadians, work in a precisely knit NORAD command under General Partridge and his Canadian deputy, Air Marshal C. (for Charles) Roy Slemon. In a two-story, windowless operations center at Ent, a ganglion of more than 600 miles of electronic communications wire feeds information to markers of huge Plexiglas plotting boards, which show the air situation over every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: NORAD: DEFENSE OF A CONTINENT | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

President George R. Farnum, LL.B., LL.M., Litt.D., is a modest man in his late fifties. He wore a gray, double-breasted suit and top coat and blue knit tie, with horn-rimmed glasses and a black scarf. He arrived in a rush, and delivered an interview standing in the center of the room, pausing in his remarks only for a sporadic swipe at the glasses with a white handkerchief...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Moral Issue | 11/13/1957 | See Source »

...week's end, as the Teamsters trooped happily home, Hoffa made it clear that "every ounce of strength" meant the sinews of his own newly gained personal power. His first project was to centralize the power of the Teamsters' four loose-knit sectional baronies so that no one can question henceforth who might be the boss of the Teamsters. It's Jimmy Hoffa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Down with Integrity | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...community, for example, is a rather tightly-knit one. On the student level this is especially obvious. The entire student body dines at two tables in the main dining hall. In this atmosphere each student comes to know all the others, and everyone knows what everyone else is taking in the way of courses...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss and Frederick W. Byron jr., S | Title: Marlboro College Prepares to Expand | 10/10/1957 | See Source »

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