Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth nationwide civil defense test, "Operation Alert 1957." Like millions of other Americans in major cities across the U.S., the President of the U.S. was ready to play his part in the nuclear-age fire drill. At 2:10 p.m., hatless, wearing a tan, double-breasted summer suit, he walked across the White House's south lawn, and for the first time boarded his new royal-blue and white Bell Ranger helicopter.* Serious of mien, the President strapped himself in the four-place whirlybird next to White House Secret Service Chief Jim Rowley. The aircraft rose from the lawn...
...moonlighters are in subordinate jobs. In Chicago recently an office worker went to his suburban shopping center to buy a suit. The clerk who fitted him was his boss...
...White Suit (at Loew's Strand Theatre in Back Bay through tonight). The semi-science-fiction classic from the Alec Guinness canon of comedy...
Bullets & Laughter. At the height of the fighting, Ned Kelly, wearing his 94-lb. suit of homemade armor, suddenly appeared in the rear of the police lines. A contemporary newspaper account describes the scene: "Nine police joined in the conflict and fired point-blank at Kelly. It was apparent that many of the shots hit him, yet he always recovered himself, and tapping his breast, laughed derisively at his opponents as he coolly returned the fire." After half an hour of this strange battle, a police bullet found Kelly's unprotected legs and felled him, the only member...
...religion in the U.S. has been the caliber of its critics-the most telling jeers have not come from the village atheists but from the men of God. And of all the vineyards suburbia draws the most unremitting hail of clerical belittlement. One Presbyterian in a grey flannel suit who has long fumed at these attacks, behind his paper on the 7:28 from Bound Brook, N.J., is Personnel Manager George S. Odiorne of Manhattan's American Management Association. In the current issue of Presbyterian Life he rises to the defense of suburban Christianity...