Word: suited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, Bernard Rich was car ried onstage by the seat of his pants to play drums in his parents' vaudeville act. At six, sporting a sailor suit and Lord Fauntleroy curls, he played the Tivoli theater circuit as "Traps, the Drum Wonder." At seven, he toured Australia for $1,000 a week, and at eleven conducted his own band. Now a greying 49, Buddy Rich is still the Drum Wonder, still hanging on by the seat of his pants...
...contempt. By week's end the rebels had spent 17 days in jail without a sign of surrender." Each day, some of their fellow jurists and as many as 1,000 of their admiring constituents fed them cakes and chicken through the bars. Having filed a federal suit asking for their freedom, the prisoners patiently waited and happily feasted...
...newspaper, Borba. Five years ago Borba founded the tabloid Vecernje Novosti (Evening News), and the new paper has grown more popular as it has grown brasher. Soon the staid morning daily, Politika, got into the act with its own tabloid, Politika Ekspres. Literary quarterlies and enter tainment weeklies followed suit. Now, from the Moslem regions of the deep south to the neat towns of the Austrian border, Yugoslavians are enjoying their cheesecake as never before...
...call Rusk by his first name-could not present a greater physical contrast to George Ball, who ably occupied State's No. 2 post for more than five years. The elegantly attired Ball was never seen in shirtsleeves or without a vest; Katzenbach makes the most expensively tailored suit look as if it came from the thrift shop. (Yet, as he explained to amused associates, he will always be U-the traditional designation of the Under Secretary in the department's phone book.) The Under Secretary's door was usually closed during Ball's tenure...
California's Blue Chip Stamp Co. got singed in quite another way. A suit against Blue Chip by 11,000 gas stations, charging the company with misrepresentation and monopoly, hit the headlines simultaneously with news on the failure of another stamp outfit, Thrifty Green. Confusing the stories, women stormed Blue Chip redemption centers in the unwarranted fear that their stamps would soon be worthless. The run at one Sacramento center was such that security guards had to hold off the mobs while a fresh supply of merchandise could be trucked...