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Yves St. Laurent accented femininity even in suits tailored in men's checkered or pin-stripe fabrics. They are worn with print, tie-neck, full blouses that ease into soft yokes in back and bands at wrist or elbow. St. Laurent's beloved tunic reappeared, belted over wide pants or pleated skirts. For daytime dresses, he used every sort of pleat-box, inverted, knife, flat, broad-to gain an almost subliminal, flickering effect...
...surprisingly, the candidate was Lester Peacock, 43, the bank's president and a fellow traditionalist, who seemed particularly interested in bankerly decorum. Peacock once remarked to his associates: "No gentleman ever wears brown shoes." The bank's board turned Peacock down flat because Crocker's pin-stripe conservatism had simply not been paying off. While more innovative, bolder California banks were gaining ground, the earnings of Crocker, the nation's 14th largest bank, were declining...
...underneath many of the issues and much of the discontent lay the corrosive effects of Watergate, a cynicism about the nation's political leaders of whatever stripe, and pervading doubts that the people were being told the truth about the bedeviling problems of the day. Portraits of the circuit riders...
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, dressed in his best diplomatic gray chalk-stripe, gathered White House reporters last week into a windowless room of the San Clemente complex, and in his outraged-uncle manner denounced the stories that he had become more powerful in foreign affairs than the President. "Totally incorrect," said Kissinger. A Secretary of State is an "agent of the President" or he is "nothing...
Goldson shot 16 for 28 from the floor and had a perfect night at the charity stripe to total 38 points. He dampened Cantabrigian hopes as effectively as any December rainstorm, tallying 22 points in the first half alone...