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...scene but was desperately trying to adapt. No one may ever know the full sequence of sordid events that ended her adaptation, but as police and hippies reconstructed the chain of circumstances that led to the murders of Groovy and Linda, it seemed tragically clear that, as the lapel buttons say, "speed kills...
They posed indulgently for photographers, Guy bussing Peggy's cheek on demand. One cameraman complained that he had dropped his film. "Anyone else lose his film?" asked Guy, as sprightly as the yellow rose in his lapel. He kissed Peggy three more times for retakes. As the wedding party took off for a reception at a friend's home, the pictures and wire stories raced across the country to land on front pages nearly everywhere. Family matter or no, the wedding was social history rather than society-page fare. Dean Rusk, Secretary of State of the U.S., native...
Died. Emmanuel Ress, 59, who made a fortune out of lapel button slogans, a jovial, onetime Wall Street clerk who in 1940 started punching out, as he called it, "levity with brevity," produced 500 million buttons for cause carriers of all stripes ("Win with Willkie," "We Need Adlai Badly," along with such contemporary coinages as "Bomb Hanoi," "Make Love, Not War"), ever true to his own disk's boast: "I don't care who wins-my business is buttons"; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...entries in a graffiti contest we have just conducted in the cause of general amusement and TIME promotion. Of course, graffiti (from the Italian, meaning scratching or scribbling) have been seen on walls since antiquity, forming an enduring kind of subliterature. Recently they became a fad, appearing on lapel buttons, car stickers and on almost any available surface, including (as we found) TIME advertising posters...
...even a slight rise in unemployment was tolerated by a Labor Party that had always stood for full employment. Saddled with such restraints, Britons quickly became uncommonly economy-conscious. And they listened with uncommon attention last week when Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, with a rosebud in his lapel and a glass of orange squash close by to fuel him through a 36-page speech, rose in Commons to present the fiscal '68 budget...