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...seems the time to introduce a major fashion change that will require tossing out most of one's wardrobe." There have also been purely aesthetic complaints: "They are goofy and unattractive," says Mrs. James Mag-in of Chicago. "Terrific, if you want to look like a walking gunny sack," says Los Angeles Advertising Executive Adrienne Hall. The Women's Liberation movement presented a rationale for the midi's downfall. "I see resistance to the midi as part and parcel of the whole rebellion thing," says C.C.N.Y. Psychology Professor Morton Bard. "The fashion industry may be ruled...
...Boston, the Sack moviehouse chain is also attempting to cash in on feminine revolt against the male chauvinist pigskin fan with a special cut-rate Monday-night admission price ($1.99 v. $3). No box-office figures are in yet on that ploy, and the long-term impact of prime-time football on show business-and on American home life-is also still undetermined. ABC's only beef so far is that the audience figures, encouraging as they are, do not include an estimated 250,000 additional males catching the Monday games at the corner...
...date soon for the most sensational of the courts-martial, that of Lieut. William Calley Jr., who is accused of murdering 102 civilians. Beginning in its November issue, Esquire magazine is giving Calley a chance to reflect on his Army experiences with the aid of a professional writer, John Sack. Self-serving though it is, the first-person account is a haunting revelation of one man's uncertain and contradictory reactions to the Viet...
...bitterness between the two major groups is deeprooted. Complained a Chinese businessman: "The Malays have got to learn to work too. We pay a machinist his salary one day and the next day he doesn't show up for work. Then the government won't let us sack him." A leading Malay politician had a different story: "With the Chinese, every form of business, from hawking fruits to multimillion-dollar construction work, is monopolized by them. Not even the crumbs are left to others...
...three disbanded corps, totaling 702 men, were rich in history and tradition. The 59-member Papal Guard of Honor (formerly the Noble Guard) traces its ancestry back to 1485. In 1527, every member was killed defending the Vatican against the sack of Rome by Emperor Charles V. Another casualty was the 498-member Palatine Guard, dating from 1850. The usefulness of both groups had been reduced to ceremonial functions. The third disbanded corps, the Vatican Gendarmes, consisted of 145 armed and trained ex-soldiers and policemen, who were still performing very real guard duties...