Word: suited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...graduation). In the subsequent bar examination, he scored the highest average ever (98.01%). When the puzzled judges accused him of cheating on the exam, Marcos demanded that he be tested orally?and scored 92.35%, the second highest average in history. Then, clad in a white sharkskin suit and white shoes to emphasize his innocence, Marcos pleaded his own case before the Supreme Court on the murder charge. He was exonerated on grounds of conflicting evidence...
Levels of Loyalty. A candidate's role seems to suit Gerstenmaier, a former lecturer in theology who was imprisoned by the Nazis for his part in the July 20, 1944 attempt on Hitler's life. Though he recently promised to support Chancellor Erhard to "the point of exhaustion," he also indicated that the point might be quickly reached. "The time might come," said Gerstenmaier, "when loyalty toward country would be greater than loyalty toward party and person...
Seating the Suit. This does not mean that pants suits are as yet right for all places and occasions. Designer Norman Norell insists that his styles are for travel, the country or at home. Manhattan Socialite Louise Savitt, who owns a Norell pants suit for evening, still hesitates to don it unless she is sure that "two other women will be wearing them; I hate to stand out." Even those happy to be conspicuous are well advised to check before sallying forth. Last week Actress Susannah York, who packed along for her New York trip four pants suits from London...
...pants suits simply walking straight to the nearest discothèque. Chicago Socialite Mrs. Charles F. Murphy Jr. wore her blue-plaid Dior-New York pants suit to a women's luncheon, found she felt "quite chic and elegant." Pamela Tiffin, the bitch in Dinner at Eight, showed up at Manhattan's Ground Floor restaurant wearing her beige, green and pink Tiziani suit. Marion Javits, wife of the New York Senator, entertains in a shocking pink Adele Simpson suit. Jacqueline Kennedy has ordered a beige-and-white wool suit from Valentino; Barbara Paley, wife of CBS Chairman William...
Where the rub lies is not with the style but the figure beneath. In suits, hourglass figures turn dumpy, short girls appear midgeted. If the suit is too tight, it bunches embarrassingly; too loose, and the wearer looks like Mary Martin in a sailor suit. The triumphs, when they are turned out, reflect both the high level of tailoring now common in feminine fashion and the trim figures of today's health-conscious women. What remains in doubt is whether pants suits will stay around long enough to produce classics. The very quality of daring that at the moment...