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Other pants are also covering for the future of the midi. Gauchos, the wide-cut dress-length trousers, had a brief spurt of popularity in the autumn. Paris' highly heralded "hot pants"-short shorts that make a good stab at compensating leg watchers for the loss of the mini-are expected to do a long, long business come spring. But for now, the rage is mainly for jeans. Boutique Owner and Designer Frankie Welch, whose pants sales account for 60% of her business, regards the current madness as the ultimate in fashion whimsy. "I'm from Georgia...
Toys and Tactics. The men of the Society of Ancients are hardly alone in their obsession. War-gaming is the preoccupation of tens of thousands of mini-generals round the world. About 10,000 of the most active British fans are organized into at least 35 clubs in the United Kingdom. Jack Scruby, a California war-game manufacturer, estimates that there are at least 50,000 enthusiasts in the States, from bankers to toolmakers, and adds: "Things are growing all the time." One club in Fort Wayne, Ind., meets three or four times a year to stage elaborately prepared battles...
...optimists and rationalists in ways that no major writer has ever been since. Venerable Author J.B. Priestley indulges all the era's colorful figures, as he does his own reminiscences of a middle-class youth in the Midlands. Illustrated with hundreds of pleasing pictures, the book is mini-history at its most palatable and benign...
Under N.E.M., the Hungarians have curtailed the dictatorial powers of the central planners and placed economic decision making in the hands of local plant managers. The plan has wrought a mini-miracle since its launching at the beginning of 1968. Next only to East Germany, Hungary runs the East bloc's most successful economy. Industrial output has increased 33% in the past five years, and real income has risen...
...inconvenience, the drabness, the dirt of our cities, and the grim, rather moving determination that something must be done about "the environment," a term that Americans are beginning to use as a joint synonym for nature and fate. You miss the girls: their long American legs struggling between mini and midi, while Women's Lib demands that their brains be finally respected, used and paid...