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Assistant professor of Social Studies Martin Peretz, a striking contrast to McCarthy with his long brown beard, brown plaid suit, red polka-dot shirt and white tie, parades the Candidate around. A few hands are shaken, then McCarthy is ready to begin. He sits on the arm of a big red easy chair and the meeting starts...

Author: By Scott A. Kaufer, | Title: McCarthy: Requiem for a Lightweight | 11/16/1971 | See Source »

...police described the woman as a white female, 22-to 25-years-old, 5' 2" tall, 130 pounds, with a heavy build and long, dark brown hair. She wore a bandana, dark-rimmed glasses, and a red and black plaid shirt...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: Police Trail One Woman In Bombing of the CFIA | 10/16/1970 | See Source »

Lonergan, who attended the congress sessions in a seldom-varying uniform of plaid sports shirt, slacks and windbreaker, listened attentively to both praise and criticism. At 65, with only one lung, he was remarkably energetic throughout the grueling week-long conference, dutifully setting aside spare moments to read many of the 700,000 words that participants had written about him. "I don't care whether they agree with me or dis agree with me," he said. "What matters is that they are here, talking with each other." Seminarian Joseph Collins, a well-to-do young activist who personally paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Answer Is the Question | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...BOSTON RECORD AMERICAN -I don't know any of these guys' names. The usual reporter, who seems to have the youth beat, is a fairly pimply fellow with black hair and a moustache. He often wears plaid jackets and paisley ties and shades. He has very good police contacts, and when Harvard administrators see him around; as one of them said, they know they are in for trouble. Another Record American reporter is a huge man who looks like a cop but isn't. This I learned the hard way. The Record American also has an attractive and fairly young...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Harvard's War Correspondents | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

Unlike many rock groups today, the Creedence Clearwater Revival is not much interested in talking up a revolution. Its four clean-cut, plaid-shirted members prefer to sing songs about where they came from and about problems among people, not social movements. As performers, they come on with a simple, bluesy, rhythmic, straight-ahead sound. That's not bad. San Francisco-based Creedence is riding the crest of today's strongest pop wave-blues-oriented rock. The group's first single, Susie Q., rose to No. 11 on the Billboard charts last fall. Proud Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Lean, Clean and Bluesy | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

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