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While trying to win over disenchanted Democrats, McGovern also faced some unreconcilable antagonists last week. Speaking before 3,500 American Legionnaires at their annual convention in Chicago, he reminded them that he too is a Legionnaire in good standing. "I intend to remain a member of this outfit for as long as I live. You can disagree with me, but you can't disown me." He even waved the flag a bit, reciting a few saccharine lines of Earl Robinson's song The House I Live In. ("What is America to me?/ A name, a map, the flag...
...ability to infiltrate government agencies. In France the Union Corse has, to some degree, infiltrated the police, the military, the customs service and the French equivalent of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, the SDECE (for Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionage). One of that outfit's former agents, Roger de Louette, who was convicted in Newark last April of smuggling $12 million worth of heroin into the U.S. and is currently serving a five-year prison term, testified that he imported the drugs in league with his superiors in the agency. The Corsican influence...
Chintzy Ties. Nobody, that is," but Molloy. Over the next decade, he refined his techniques and conducted other experiments that convinced him he was right. During his early research, for example, he discovered that the Boston Strangler invariably wore beige or gray repairman-like outfits; the light colors tended to reassure housewives and helped him get into their homes. Last year Molloy planted an actor posing as a trainee in a New York City corporate office, and instructed him to ask 100 secretaries to retrieve some information from their files. First the actor dressed in "lower-middle-class" style: black...
...told TIME'S Bernard Diederich, "is the tendency to come out of a dependent situation with a psychology of dependence." To help make the point, Manley has broken with the British shirt-and-tie tradition by wearing a kareba-a short-sleeved, open-neck jacket and matching pants outfit-in Parliament. He even wore one at his wedding last June to Radio and Television Announcer Beverly Anderson...
...Digits, Smith's fall line-up eschewed traditional blues, browns and grays in favor of the baby pinks, brilliant yellows and other bright pastels usually reserved for spring. To top off the show, Smith's 19-year-old sister Doris diddy-bopped out in a 1972 bridal outfit: a strapless white Lurex gown worn with a white fake-fur jacket and a gauzy veil with a feather stuck in the side...