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...black, its interior walls are white and, by decree, unadorned with pictures. MCA executives are advised against wearing sport jackets and instructed never to remove their suit coats, most of which are black, like the boss's. Wasserman has often told unwary young employees that their color-stripe ties are handsome enough but not suitable to wear to the office. MCA people should be plain-color is for actors...
...believe," she said, busy knitting something white and inscrutable, "that all children are beautiful. Their skin, their eyes, their legs and arms and hair are what you should see first. Nothing must detract from them." Accordingly, Eiseman dresses generally come in solid colors or in a simple check or stripe. Trademarks of the line are special appliqued forms: sailboats, birds, daisies...
Fortnight ago, in Cochabamba, Bolivia's second biggest city, either police or pro-Paz campesinos fired into a mob of rioting students, killing one of the youths. That was all it took to trigger an open revolt by students, miners and agitators of every stripe. In mining centers, union radios crackled with calls for "popular rebellion" against "the bloody tyrant and assassin Paz Estenssoro." Lechin's well-armed miners fought pitched battles with government troops, and the first casualty reports told of some 50 dead...
Spirited. Salinger also hits hard at Murphy's links to Goldwater. He accuses Murphy of having supported Dr. Fred Schwarz's ultra-right Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, charges that Murphy is an "archconservative of the same stripe as Senator Goldwater, but hasn't the courage to express his honest convictions...
Michael's defense, conducted by natty Lawyer Arthur ("Dart") O'Keefe Jr., who drives a Rolls-Royce and affects bowler hats and pin-stripe suits, is that he was just too drunk to have been driving Mrs. Hitchings' 1964 Ford station wagon at the time of the accident, and that Nancy herself must have been in the driver's seat. He claims to remember nothing of what happened that night...