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...dress with matching coat, a mink hat and a spray of diamonds. For U.S. women, who are continually perplexed by British royalty's choice of clothes, the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis elucidated: "It is the kind of thing British royalty often wears, whether snipping a ribbon or watching the horses at Ascot. But in the U.S. such clothes are reserved for afternoon weddings, bar mitzvahs or cocktail parties...
...Strasbourg, France, last week, ribbon-cutting dignitaries opened a modest building with a grandiose name, "Palace of Human Rights." It is the first permanent home of the European Court of Human Rights, and the festivities were no sooner over than the court faced up to a judicial Everest: ruling on the language rights of northern Belgium's French-speaking minority. In the third case of its six-year history, the court's decision may also determine whether the court itself lives or dies...
Last week a blue-ribbon commission appointed by Governor Pat Brown held the first of many closed-door sessions aimed at analyzing Watts's social and economic problems. A new city anti-poverty board had received $7,400,000 in federal funds, much of it to be spent in Watts. Fifty Los Angeles Negro businessmen started a drive to establish more Negro-owned stores in the community. The state opened headquarters in Watts to receive requests for social services...
What has totally revamped the industry is the advent of recording on a 1-in. ribbon of magnetized plastic film Perfected in 1947, tape recording stretches the music out on an operating table where, with the aid of a razor and splicing tape, small miracles of plastic surgery can be performed. Where once the artist recorded a work from beginning to end several times, then selected the version with the least mistakes, now he can do it piecemeal and at his leisure, confident that any wrong notes, known as "clams," will later be snipped out and replaced with the correct...
...hopes and desires of low income citizens." He termed the plan "a political whitewash... of a situation which has gotten too not politically" and went on to declare, "Unless this plan is changed to provide a halt to the eviction and demolition process while review of the blue-ribbon panel being made, Mayer Collins' statement will justly deserve a description as a political face-saving approach...