Word: suit
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Verve & Versatility. Even though the Peace Corps rejects four out of five applicants, it is the country's largest single employer of new college graduates. In the beginning, the corps sought specialists; now it concentrates on volunteers with liberal-arts degrees. Their verve and versatility suit them for tackling villagers' grass-roots problems where experts might feel wasted. Their average age is 24, although an 80-year-old served as a nurse in Turkey and 142 volunteers currently are over...
...moved upward in a culture now more than ever devoted, in a time of expanding income and leisure, to the luxuries both provide. Good grooming is only part of it. The new American male also goes to the opera, masters a few French phrases, perhaps buys an elegant Edwardian suit and tours the Continent-where many of the latest styles, including long hair, originated. Good grooming is the most visible part of it; any investment, however steep, pays off just beyond the hair stylist's door. It is worth noting that, since 1953, the U.S. male has spent more...
...sold it for $302,400 to a South African merchant. Winston, the third owner, called the Lesotho diamond "practically perfect," said he will cut it into about 20 stones selling for more than $1,000,000. As for Petrus Ramoboa, he has already gone out and bought himself a suit, three frying pans, and two new wives...
...Democratic Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, 39, is not having such a good year. Overwhelmed by last summer's race trouble, denounced as a public souse and womanizer, sued for separation by the mother of his eight children, Hizzoner has most recently been hit with a $100,000 damage suit by Mrs. Ruth O. Martin, 47, wife of his wife's brother. According to Mrs. Martin, she was visiting the mayoral mansion last July when Cavanagh "kicked and knocked the plaintiff against the furniture and onto the floor." Cavanagh's attorney said that the mayor "flatly, absolutely and categorically...
...fact that two merging companies presently compete or do not compete is not the significant issue," said Ferguson in a 36-page opinion that ended trial of a suit brought by the Justice Department in 1965. The question, he said, was whether the merger tended to discourage future competition. "Congress has directed," he said, "that if its effect is anticompetitive, then there is a violation." It was the judge's contention that the acquisition prevented any other newspaper from coming into San Bernardino County in the future. "The evidence discloses that the San Bernardino County market has now been...