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...much or how little she wants to reveal; fasteners will get her there in a flash. Sportswear Designer Anne Klein, determined "to give the customer the ultimate in zip," has done so with the ultimate in zippers-one that is so cleverly concealed by the material that the slash appears as if by magic and not by the mechanical gnashings of a hundred metal teeth. To ensure greater visibility, Klein styles feature side closings, and those that do not ride low on the hips lace like a corset above the waist. Skirt Designer Stella Sloat shows a few wraparound midis...
...devastating 1967 black riot, in which 43 people died. It is worsened by inadequate police, inefficient courts, poor schools, a $60 million city deficit and a mindless urban-renewal program that has razed blocks of ghetto homes without replacing them. It is compounded by lagging auto sales that slash black jobs, the prejudice of many white Detroiters who came originally from the South-and a massive failure of most of the city's leadership...
Take an executive earning $40,000 a year. On paper, his family is richer than 98% of U.S. households. But, after taxes, food and mortgage payments slash his disposable income to about $16.000. If he has three children, he is likely to pay private schools at least $5,000 more. Though he has only $11,000 left-before meeting scores of other expenses-his gross income makes his children ineligible for one possible break: a private-school scholarship. Moreover, the bulk of the scholarship funds his children's schools have available are quite likely to be pledged to promising...
...newspaper column, "Reflections," which runs in 400 papers, earning him about $5,000 a week. "I've got no solutions," the longshoreman-philosopher said. "This country needs solutions. When I write, I'm a passionate person, but I can't do it in a column. I slash too much." And Hoffer's replacement? Aaron Wildavsky, Dean of the graduate school of public affairs at the University of California at Berkeley, a nonactivist Humphrey Democrat who is to the left of Hoffer on race questions but right in step with Hoffer's views on student radicals...
...They slash at each other, not caring whether the cut is shallow or deep, but seeking only to wound. The dialogue comes equipped with quills. "You said something last night about having another baby," he says. "What's your position on that now?" Her reply is a don't-give-a-damn putdown: "Oh, I suppose just lying on my back." What gives this exchange its edge and makes the situation simultaneously forceful and intolerable, is the unmistakable air of reality...