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Variety, too, contributes to the vogue. Whereas men, in 150 years of pants wearing, have managed to add little more than cuffs and a crease, women in the past few years have rung changes beyond belief. Trousers come belled or straight, hip hugging or waist level. Materials range from daytime wool, gabardine or leather to evening silk, velvet, lame and brocade. Jackets are single-or double-breasted, come to the hips, to the top of the thighs, to the knees...
Birth of a Tiger Cat. The rise of Lin Piao to the penultimate rung on the Peking ladder of power is itself the story of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. No one in his native Hupeh province would have expected him to become a guerrilla leader 19 years after he was born in Twisting Dragon Hill, the son of a felt-factory owner. In Manchu China, boys would be soldiers: off to Canton's Whampoa Military Academy went Lin, where he studied under Chiang Kaishek, in the company of such revolutionary notables as Chou...
...Harvard lacrosse team will battle Dartmouth for the penultimate rung in Ivy League ladder Saturday at Soldiers Field...
...stalked Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, 65. The senior Senator prowled through the Virginian's homestead, admired the view of the Capitol, and then announced that he would foreclose the mortgage. "I'd like to have the office," rumbled Morse, who stands on the eighth rung from the top in Senate seniority and can claim nearly any office he chooses. Groaned one of Little Harry's men: "As Number 100 in the Senate, Byrd will take the one that's left-somewhere out in Maryland, maybe...
...strength from the duality of his background. When he leaves the Council, the CCA will have no one there with a broad base of support. McGovern has the history and the talent to replace Crane, and could have the chance to do so. But once he gains the first rung of the political ladder, it may be hard to stop Jim McGovern from going on to higher things