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...into business last July after eight years as an assistant to Oscar de la Renta, and at 31 he is still relatively little known in the fashion industry. He was in his Manhattan office in January sketching some shorts and sun dresses for his summer collection when the phone rang: the White House. Betty Ford had noticed some of his designs in the Washington Star-News and wanted him to fly down to the capital to discuss his making clothes...
...time, he believed in the system, that it would work things out, because it always had. He didn't realize how greatly the police and guards hated and feared the inmates, nor how deeply the inmates mistrusted the state. Governor Rockefeller condemned their radical action, but his condemnation rang hollow. He had effected no prison reform since he came to office in 1959, and not until Attica did the state promise change. Of the 28 reforms the state agreed to in the process of bargaining at Attica only three--the creation of an ombudsman's office, a grievance procedure...
...need was a drive-in church to serve this mobile culture. So Schuller rented a drive-in theater near Disneyland. Using established retailing techniques, he rang 3,000 doorbells looking for customers, bought strategic land near a freeway, put in enough asphalt for 1,400 cars, and erected a 90-ft. cross on top of a 15-story Tower of Hope...
...Graham, was moved to record a more conventional greeting after his ragtime ditty began drawing 300 calls per day. Graham is also deluged with calls. "People call from New York just to listen," he says. "It genuinely gives them joy." Author Robert Rimmer's (Thursday, My Love) phone rang almost continuously when word got around that his machine read back a passage from his book...
...afford it some protection from charges of conspiracy, paranoia and opportunism--charges which are frequently leveled at assassination researchers. Not that everything said at the three-day extravaganza at B.U., which also dealt with the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. among other subjects, rang true, or even made sense. In fact, a great deal of what was said was totally incoherent. But the Zapruder film raises problems which cannot be resolved without a new investigation...