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...story Georgian-style office building on London's Smith Square, Prime Minister Edward Heath strode into Tory Party headquarters to sound the keynote for his campaign for reelection. "It is essential to have a strong government which is firm but fair," he declared, picking up the theme of the Tories' 12,000-word manifesto "Firm Action for a Fair Britain." Across the square, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, in a rival press conference, tartly retitled the Tory manifesto "Infirm and Unfair." Slimmer than during his two terms as Prime Minister and reflectively puffing on a pipe, Wilson lashed...
Call it a revival, mark it down to a turn of fashion's wheel. The mannequins who strode, twirled and postured through Paris' haute couture salons last week in new spring and summer collections looked as if they had just stepped out of a Jean Harlow or Greta Garbo movie. Hemlines had dropped to midcalf; necklines plunged revealingly; clothes were flowingly full again. This evocation of what may have been couture's grandest era-from the mid-1920s to the late '30s-was not simply a salute to nostalgia. The designers seemed to be saying that...
...like all Englishmen, he only worked a three-day week. We could get little fuel, and warmed ourselves by burning pictures of coal from newsmagazine accounts of the miners' strike. Suddenly there came peremptory knocking at the door of our humble rooms at 221-B Baker Street. In strode an American visitor, whom I shall call the Secretary of Hope...
...youthful (41) president, Clive Davis, on grounds of improperly diverting corporate funds to personal uses. Fears of a scandal concerning "drugola"-the alleged currying of favor by supplying acid, pot and cocaine to rock groups and disc jockeys-hung over the entire industry, Columbia included. When Davis' successor strode to the podium and began his remarks by quipping: "A funny thing happened to me on my way to retirement," everyone laughed-but not too hard. If there was one person who could clean Columbia's house quickly and thoroughly, and in the process give it new life...
Graham preached from a bright blue $15,000 podium at second base, surrounded by the live greenery of the Braves' infield and a cluster of yellow and violet plastic flowers immediately under the platform. Each night, he strode across the field with head bowed, looking up once or twice--precisely when he reached the photographers who wanted a candid snapshot...