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Labour's short-term stake in these Scottish seats is large enough to justify his attitude. Along with Wales (where the nationalist party Plaid Cymru has made significant though much smaller inroads on Labour strength), Scotland is the key to any Labour victory. If it were not for its safe seats in Scotland and Wales, Labour would have lost every general election in Britain since...
...where other black newsmen meet. His beat is largely confined to a cluttered, windowless office just off the Washington Post's news room and a vast network of telephone sources. Were it not for a slight resemblance to Comedian Flip Wilson and a penchant for wearing red plaid trousers, Columnist William Raspberry could do his work unnoticed, until another of his provocative articles appears...
Making their final summations earlier last week, the lawyers for the defense and prosecution tried to shape the great mass of evidence to their own ends. To defend Stans, Walter Bonner, 48, wore a flamboyant brown and yellow plaid suit, and he brought along a courtroom style to match. Laughing, shouting, waving his arms, steaming with barely controlled indignation, Bonner put on a Chautauqua performance for four hours. He claimed that his client had been unfairly afflicted by the prosecution with the blight of "Vescoitis"-the implication that Stans had been controlled in thought and deed by Financier Robert Vesco...
...plaid wool shirt, Ash looked deceptively casual. He sat at the head of the walnut conference table. In front of him was a five-page agenda for two full days of work. "Gentlemen," Ash said quietly to the 14 men, "let's get going. We have a budget to prepare." That first session lasted seven hours. It was the same the next day-isolating the trouble spots like the massive defense expenditures, then hammering them back into place, billion by billion, even by millions...
Would you buy a used car-or a political platform-from someone wearing a pin-striped suit, Brooks Brothers' rep tie and wing-tipped shoes? Until recently, a large majority of Americans would have answered yes. The peacock in psychedelic tie, screaming plaid suit and patent-leather pumps was hard-pressed to give away a road map. Suddenly, however, public opinion on men's wear seems to be swinging sharply toward the splashy...