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...Luba, who won a Coty Award for her designs last month, does not pretend that she invented pants, no designer has worked with them more skillfully. As an ex-dancer, she likes their freedom. But she also likes variety: "No reason not to wear pants one day, a short skirt the next, a long one the following day." In her fall collection, Luba has pants with a tunic top. "If you get too hot," she explains to customers, "go to the ladies' room, remove the pants, and you emerge in tunic and tights-perfectly presentable...
Welcome Question. "The thing I admire about politicians," says Frye, "is their magnificent ability to be asked questions on TV before millions of viewers and then to so obviously skirt the issues. Nixon doesn't really dart his eyes about, but I do it to show the way his mind is working. Imagine him being asked his views about NATO." Abruptly Frye's voice drops into the familiar singsong baritone, and his arms flop up and down like a marionette's: "I'm glad you asked me that question. I'll tell you exactly what...
...American named Hank Wharton: nicknamed "Hanky-Panky, cause that's the only kind of business he'd want," McGuire says. Unofficial headquarters of the outfit is the Hotel Tivoli in Lisbon, where "Hanky-Panky" lives in Room 228--a room registered in the name of "a little mini-skirt with red hair"--and his chief assistant resides...
With his speech, Humphrey succeeded in embarrassing Nixon slightly about his silence on the war. Writing in the Ripon Forum, magazine of the liberal Ripon Society, Oregon's G.O.P. Senator Mark Hatfield pointedly noted: "The Paris peace talks should not become the skirt for timid men to hide behind." But only a disastrous dive in the polls could persuade Nixon to risk a potentially dangerous fight on the issue. He still maintains that for candidates to discuss possible future settlements can only damage efforts...
...Edinburgh International Festival, she was dressed for another part: that of a gal who had just come from mod, mod London. "Fashion is crazy," said Daliah, who was wearing a jaunty black Homburg, calf-high boots and a sleeveless coat over a white shirt and a mini skirt. "I had to join in like this because when I walk down the street in Lon don without fashion, nobody notices me." Nonsense...