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...mother teaches her daughter a strict moral code and yet encourages her to walk in a mini-skirt and tight sweater around Harvard Square on Saturday evenings, she is likely to have trouble with her daughter. In the same way, this society tells its sons of American values; of their obligation to help the poor both inside and outside its borders. At the same time, however, the SSS encourages America's sons to pursue methods which do not support these values or fulfill that obligation, and actually prevents them from developing methods which can better achieve these ends. Thus...
...exporting such military items as jungle boots, uniforms and galvanized steel for troops fighting in Viet Nam. One result is spreading prosperity-including even traffic jams -in Korean cities. Men are turning to woolen suits and many women are discarding their traditional chima and chogori (silk blouse and long skirt) for once scarce Western dresses. The silk goes into exports...
...Miniskirts may be cute on the campus and boisterous at the beach, but your cover article [Dec. 1] omits that spot where they are truly most appealing: the garment industry's pocketbook. What could be sweeter than taking an ordinary skirt, cutting it into three pieces, and then selling each piece for twice as much as the original...
...Shoot Him! Shoot Him!" The punks with her purse joined those who had tackled the Mexicans, and all of them danced around her. One pulled her legs from under her; the others lifted up her skirt and fondled her. Primitivo was outraged. Plunging into the group, he knocked down the youth with the purse and punched another in the face. "Shoot him! Shoot him!" they yelled. The purse snatcher did just that...
What angers Hughes, amuses Galanos and frustrates Norell are the new youth-oriented, high-rise styles, executed in eye-popping colors and freewheeling fabrics, that have turned the fashion world topsy-turvy in the '60s. The 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...