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Allende has not yet found a way, however, to skirt the Christian Democrats on another issue. He has thus been forced to abandon temporarily his plan to set up "people's courts" to hear cases involving drunkenness, family quarrels and other minor offenses that rarely go before the regular judiciary. The opposition feared that the proposed courts, like people's tribunals in China, might also start doling out punishment for "counter-revolutionary" behavior...
...Coco sprang no surprises, only refinements on what was her classic look: the short, straight, collarless jacket, the slightly flaring skirt, and hems that never budged from mid-knee length. Wearing the broad-brimmed Breton hat that was her hallmark, her scissors hanging from a ribbon around her neck, and her four fingers held firmly together in spite of severe arthritis, she would feel for defects. Working directly on the model, she often picked a dress apart with the point of her scissors, complaining that it was unwearable. Her fashion empire, at her death, brought in over $160 million...
When Sisscla Bok-wife of Harvard's President-elect and a Ph. D. in philosophy-met the press yesterday morning, the press wanted to know what she thought of the mini-skirt. She thinks it's fine, but says she doesn't know much about fashion...
With the advent of the midi skirt, and nothing whistling but the winter winds, women's fashions seemed to have reached desperate straits. The only way to cross them, clearly, was in pants. Knickers and gauchos, hiphuggers, bell-bottoms and jeans-all are currently outselling dresses of any length. Women in pants are no longer restricted to appearances at the local supermarket but are welcomed at offices, restaurants, theaters and nightclubs around the country...
Lash said that the woman, whom police do not want identified, was "badly shaken but not hysterical. She asked for a safety pin to attach her skirt," he added...