Word: suited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signal for everybody to get ready for the wedding and gather around the sanctuary, an arbor of aluminum beams and reflecting plastic panels. There came the groom, Artie, 24, carrying a guitar and wearing baggy trousers, a white, Nehru-collar tunic with red trim and cowboy boots. "My wedding suit. Nancy made it," he beamed. And there came the bride, Nancy, 15, her long blonde hair glistening, silver braces on her teeth (she'll take them off next year), and happily, joyously pregnant...
...Involvement. The violations continue largely because of a legal stalemate. While the Supreme Court rulings seem clear enough, a violation of the constitutional principle of church-state separation is not a criminal act, and the Justice Department will not move until some aggrieved party files a civil suit contending that specific school officials are acting unconstitutionally. Until that happens, says a Justice Department spokesman with obvious relief, "we have no type of involvement." Such groups as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Anti-Defamation League find it too costly to support plaintiffs who wish to take individual teachers...
...painters, writers, musicians, dancers and film makers. At the same time, Lyons Houses, which owns' a chain of dollar-a-night hotels on New York's Bowery (where artists have traditionally hobnobbed with derelicts) began renovating one of them, the Alabama, into studio housing, eventually may follow suit with others. And in Brooklyn Heights, the city has decided to include a low-cost studio cooperative for artists in its urban-renewal plans...
...winches were nearly twice as effective. There were lots of other ways. In one race, Sturrock was coming up fast on a reach, and seemed certain to overtake the slower Weatherly. So Mosbacher started changing spinnakers; there was no reason for it, but Sturrock assumed there was, promptly followed suit-and the resulting loss of momentum preserved Weatherly's lead and cost Gretel the race. In another duel, Bus noticed that whenever Jock actually meant to tack, he grabbed the wheel at the bottom; when he was merely faking, he grasped it at the side. Bus naturally ignored...
...systems programming. Whatever it is, the talent is scarce enough that many companies show great tolerance for "wild ducks." "I overcame my prejudice against working for IBM," says full-bearded Manhattan Computer Expert Larry Josephson, 28, "when I was interviewed by a man dressed in a musty old suit and tennis shoes. We just talked about drinking...