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Perhaps, as you say, the origin of the yellow ribbon as a symbol of longing for a captive's return is lost in the mists of folklore [Feb. 9]. The story my grandmother always told me, however, was that young ladies wore yellow ribbons around their necks to show that they were "spoken for" by a member of the U.S. Cavalry. The golden ribbon was a feminine version of the yellow stripe on the troopers' trousers...
Long live the Red, White and Blue! And let us welcome the yellow ribbon, our new symbol of care and courage...
...with operating it. And perhaps their biggest failure lately has been the inability to formulate a coherent set of national priorities. The result: enactment of muddled programs because there are no clear objectives. Democratic Congressman Richard Boiling of Missouri, who hopes to establish later this year a bipartisan blue-ribbon committee on reorganization of the Government, believes that a new national consensus has been needed ever since the basic objectives and priorities began to blur about 15 years ago. That was the time, at the height of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society flourishes, when the polls began showing that...
...Photographer Watanabe shoots Polaroid stills to test the light and color, Clotilde waits. Like all the real pros, she is good at waiting. She daydreams of Paris, where she keeps an apartment. She sees herself doing the spring collections, "and Yves St. Laurent himself is tying my ribbon, and I'm going down the runway, and every reporter in the world is watching, and it's total magic . . ." Magic indeed, as, nearly three hours after this shoot began, Watanabe is ready to expose her first frame of color film. It is uncanny, but the Paris-in-the-spring reverie runs...
America's joy pealed from church belfries, rippled from flag staffs and wrapped itself in a million miles of yellow ribbon, tied around trees, car antennas and even the 32-story Foshay Tower in Minneapolis. Barbara Deffley, wife of the Methodist minister in Holmer, Ill., rang the church bell 444 times, once for each day of captivity. "At about 200 pulls, I thought I'd never make it," she gasped. "Then at about 300 pulls, I got my second wind and kept going all the way." Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas W. McGee, 56, was too impatient to wait...