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Chart & Report. In the candidate's cabin, not a moment was wasted. Wearing a plaid smoking jacket (to keep his coat unwrinkled for the day's appearances), Nixon received the daily "tip" by his staff on the situation at the next stop: population of the town (broken down by ethnic groups), its prides and its problems, its political complexion, the situation in the congressional races, the people who should be mentioned in his speech. Said one staff report as the plane droned over Texas: "San Antonio is a popular winter resort and a haven for many elderly people...
...week she travels to Manhattan for professional training at the Women's Swimming Association. When the weather warms up, she spends every day at Ridgewood's outdoor municipal pool, swims a mile morning and evening when the pool is uncrowded. "Afternoons," says Carin, "I put on my plaid bathing suit and go down with the kids and have a good time." There, she is always careful not to outdo her male friends...
...Plaids and stripes are dominant in cottons. Especially popular are the red Steward plaid and an elephant gray ombre plaid. With the exception of the Stewart, most of the current plaids tend toward muted, blackened colors. Quilted plaids are also in the running...
...menagerie went with them. In 1934, when Moscow's Savoy Hotel refused to admit a bearded Korean hen named Skippy, which the Wards had brought with them from China, Angus promptly rented for Skippy a country house complete with personal maid. In off-duty hours Ward affected loud plaid jackets, burgundy shirts, and tartan tam-o'-shanters or astrakhan fur caps. This sort of costume, reinforced by his Vandyke beard, produced a distinctly undiplomatic effect, and veteran Foreign Service men still recall with delight the day when a newly arrived junior official, mistaking him for the doorman...
Even the dashing young man in the plaid jacket, red Bermuda shorts, and plaid knccsox, could not provoke more raised eyebrows than did Marlene Dictrich in her gown of filmy gauze. Miss Dictrich demonstrated the truth of the widely accepted notion that women's clothing attracts more attention than do men's. Yet feminine styles and trends are oftimes obscure to the Harvard man, to say nothing of the Radcliffe girl...