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...contact and the employers will not hire him, he has voluntarily restricted his chances of finding work." Hence the longhair is not entitled to unemployment insurance. The state office in Sacramento is backing Hammond. Only 3% of the employers surveyed want to hire girls who wear midi or micro-mini skirts either, but for the moment they are chivalrously being kept on the unemployment rolls...
...midi skirt is ungainly, unflattering and unwarranted. But it is nonetheless a fashion fact. Rebellious consumers have raised voices, but the hemlines have stayed down: the fall collections include hardly a mini. Still, the new lengths offer compensations, sometimes by baring the bosom, often-in a sudden, gratuitous flash-by revealing the upper thigh. Zippers and buttons, snaps and laces-all open a variety of ways designed to persuade girls, and girl watchers, that all is not lost...
...Valentino was first with the layered look (either a shorter skirt worn underneath a midi coat, or the skirt itself divided into tiers of different lengths), but Jacques Tiffeau, Bill Blass and Donald Brooks have added frosting. Tiffeau has wrapped a deeply slashed camel-colored midi over a maroon mini skirt and topped some of his evening wear with necklines that do not stop till they hit the waist. Bill Blass settles for the double hemline for daywear and pulls out all stops at night with a series of multilevel chiffon dresses, plus some crepes with hems that look more...
...midst of such floriated rituals, the ladies reviewed some of their serious projects. The South Atlantic Region of the council reported on the mini-parks it is developing in many urban areas. In Fort Worth, members successfully saved a botanical park from destruction by a proposed highway. Garden clubs in Idaho are campaigning to prevent wild rivers from being dammed by the U.S. Corps of Engineers. The ladies are not mounting massive environmental crusades, but cultivating their own gardens, brightening the land in a small...
Uneven Effects. The mini-recession has had uneven effects across the economy. Airlines suffer immediately from corporate cost-cutting. Trans World Airlines reported a $40 million loss for the quarter, partly caused by the work slowdown on the part of air-traffic controllers during March. RCA, hurt by a decline in sales of television sets and other consumer items, had a profit drop of 36%, to $27 million. Oil-company earnings so far have generally decreased...