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...uprising has come close to creating a multi-skirt-length culture, and it is being opposed as vehemently as it is being cheered. "I hope that adult women will stop trying to look like kids it's a disaster when they do and develop their own look," says Seventeen Fashion Director Rosemary McMurtry. Scolds Society Columnist Suzy Knickerbocker: "The next thing you know they'll be yanking little ones out of the fifth grade, freaking them up in the name of fashion, and throwing them on the magazine covers...
Gopen's truck has a room for consultations, a table to fill out applications, and even a phone so people can call immediately to check job openings. In seventeen months of operation, Gopen's mobile employment center has over seven hundred part-time and four hundred full-time job placements to its credit. And poverty programs in New Haven and New York have begun to copy Gopen's idea...
Also there was Laura and three seventeen...
...long as Hamlet. As it stands, it is tightly constructed. There are no sub-plots, and no excrescences. Everything deals with the prime matter at hand--even the drunken porter's scene has a far more important function than that of mere comic relief. The dramatist compressed some seventeen years into the space of a few months. More than any of the other tragedies, Macbeth moves unswervingly and swiftly, without unnecessary padding, from start to finish; and any cut removes something valuable. Yet Houseman has removed sizable chunks (including the incredibly fabulous cauldron recipe of the Witches), and even transplanted...
Tooth & Nose. Their audience is al most entirely girls. Brothers and boy friends mostly stick to Mad, car magazines and Playboy. So teen publishers tune their message to girls between ten and 18. The leader of the pack is still Seventeen (circ. 1,300,000), but Seventeen is now 23 years old and tends to look ahead to marriage and other grown-up matters. The newer formula includes fashion, fiction, personal and beauty advice and fan articles on teen heroes-mostly recording stars. The blend varies, but all the mags strive to respond to their readers' letters...