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Jimmy Carter suggested that he might have greatness in him, a quality that historians have not yet detected. Lyndon Johnson once looked into the face of a young black admirer and told friends later that he could tell the lad felt he was in the presence of "the Lord God Almighty." L.B.J. proved all too mortal...
Buyers from major department stores were wowed by Klein's deep-think. I. Magnin stopped the presses on its Christmas catalogue to include a full page of the line. Says Catherine di Montezemolo, a vice president of Lord & Taylor: "It's a gut feeling, but I don't see how it can miss." In November Lord & Taylor will display the undies in two locations in its Fifth Avenue store: lingerie and the Klein boutique. New York City-based Bloomingdale's is planning to overhaul areas of its intimate-apparel departments to feature the collection. But Vice...
...parents, and blessed elderly cripples too weak even to speak. Finally, the Pope paused at the front of the grotto to pray in silence. For ten minutes he knelt, his head bowed, occasionally seeming to wipe away tears. Then he told his fellow pilgrims, "Faith assures us that the Lord can and wants to draw good from evil. Neither just nor unjust, suffering remains difficult to understand and difficult to accept, even for those who have faith." He might have been talking about himself...
...journals often gloss over the news and publish the analysis. The conservative Kohl has powerful allies: the nationally distributed Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (circ. 332,000), probably the country's most influential daily and all but certainly its weightiest; Die Welt (circ. 210,000), the intellectual flagship of Press Lord Axel Springer's chain, and perhaps the most ardently pro-American, pro-Israeli and anti-Soviet publication in West Germany; Springer's giant Bild Zeitung (circ. 5 million), a sensationalized daily featuring bare-breasted pinups and imaginative stories of sex scandals that nonetheless enjoys unexcelled access to politicians...
...International Ladies Garment Workers Union contends that his members "are not fat-cat steelworkers or auto workers." Their average wage is just over $5 an hour. The move to foreign goods has been accelerated by the renewed popularity of private-label merchandise. Retailers like New York City's Lord & Taylor and Houston's Sakowitz have become disenchanted with designer products because the widely available garments have lost much of their exclusivity. Halston's name, for example, now appears on J.C. Penney's dresses. Even worse, designer clothes frequently turn up in discount and off-price stores...