Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After ham and eggs one night last week, Air Force Captain Joe Kittinger, 31, drove up to a 2 a.m. rendezvous in the clear, cold New Mexico desert and methodically climbed into one of the strangest costumes ever worn by man. First he put on two suits of insulated, porous underwear, then a partial-pressure suit, heavy, quilted long underwear, standard Air Force flying suit, heavy G.I. socks, electrically heated socks, heavy woolen socks, rubberized boots (called Li'l Abners), nylon gloves, high-altitude pressure gloves, electrically heated flying gloves, glass-faced space helmet...
Already pressing voter-registration suits against Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana, the Justice Department last week set out for the first time to uphold the right of a Negro to vote in a local election. Moving under the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the U.S. filed suit in Memphis federal court challenging a hoary custom of white Democrats in solidly Democratic Fayette County, Tenn.-the no-Negroes Democratic primary election conducted a year before each general election. Since in Fayette County the primary is the only real contest, the U.S. argued that Negroes are disfranchised by being barred...
...stories, was facing Swindler Jake ("The Barber") Factor, who claimed before reporters and the police that he had been kidnaped, held for twelve days in a basement and just released. Factor said he was still wearing the same clothes in which he had been kidnaped-but his shirt and suit were clean and only slightly wrinkled. And there was another strange thing. Recalls Brennan: "One of the things that impressed me was a cop who noticed Factor's condition. He said, 'You don't spend twelve days in the summer in Chicago without a bath...
...SUIT PRICES, holding stable this year, will rise $5 a suit on 1960 fall lines, says Jerome I. Udell, chairman of big Gramercy Park clothes. Industry looks for 7% hike in labor costs with new contract next spring, plus other higher costs...
With the Ivy League season not even completed, two of the nation's cherished institutions--the Associated Press and Sports Illustrated--published their all-Ivy football teams early this week. Others, who have the decency to wait for the end of the season, will no doubt soon follow suit. The CRIMSON has decided to add its authoritative selections, in order to esolve the conflicts that are bound to appear...