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...left the system over the past year), the local N.A.A.C.P. chapter struck a compromise in a 15-year-old desegregation suit against the Atlanta school board that leaves over half of the city's schools virtually all-black and could become a model for other cities seeking to skirt extensive busing of schoolchildren. In return, the school board guaranteed the hiring of Atlanta's first black superintendent and other high-level black administrators. Outraged by the tradeoff, which he sees as a dangerous precedent, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins last week gave the Atlanta chapter 30 days...
...dimple toward the office in his Pontiac showroom. The ground was steady there, but he could not understand why the place was full of plastic palm trees. His bad chemicals had made him forget that this was Hawaiian Week. Then he saw his sales manager approaching in a grass skirt and a pink T shirt that said "Make Love Not War." The sales manager greeted Dwayne by saying "Aloha...
...regarded as the ultimate repositories of its wisdom? Why is a kinky personality presumed to be a rich one? And finally, how much of theatergoing has become a jaded form of slumming in which the middle-class playgoer gawks and laughs at perverse creatures whom he would studiously skirt on the streets? "I.E. Kalem
Stars. Nearly all of the 800-plus designers who displayed their wares, including such stars as St. Laurent, Angelo Tarlazzi and Michelle Bruyere, had variations on the skirt-and-sweater theme. The look includes hip-length cardigans, frequently worn over pullovers. Skirts are longish, too, starting at the knee and working all the way down to the ankle. Many billow like peasant dresses. Fashion phrasemakers, with considerable wit, call them "BigSkirts...
...fashion world thrives on small controversies; last week's was over skirt length. To some retailers, some of the BigSkirts looked like a secondhand midi of a few seasons back. That calf-length style was a fiasco. Said Sara Monteil, a buyer for Continental Purchasing Co.: "American buyers remember the midi just like the Alamo and they aren't going to repeat old mistakes." Griped Norman Wechsler of Saks Fifth Avenue to Women's Wear Daily: "The last time we had the long lengths, even the stock market went down." Bob Sakowitz, executive vice pres ident...