Word: switches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old daughter, Alice Ormsby-Gore, to Manhattan's Dalton School for the coming spring term. Alice will stay at the East Side apartment of a family friend, John Hay Whitney, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's-nice enough digs, but quite a switch for Alice, who will have to leave behind her 175-cc. B.S.A. motorcycle and all her swinging siblings: Julian, 27, a London film maker and male fashion model; Jane, 25, wife of a Carnaby Street boutique owner; Victoria, 21, granny-style dresser and folk-rock fan; and Francis...
Hotchner, 48, is typical of a host of depilated dandies who are discovering that it can be fun to switch images by pasting on mustaches, sideboards* and beards. Sometimes, for the complete transformation, they slip on long-haired, hippie-style wigs as well. Manhattan's Hollywood Joe's Hair Piece Co., one of the nation's leading suppliers of fake facial foliage made from human hair, is now shipping out 2,800 beards, boards and brushes weekly, and orders from the Midwest run second only to those from New York...
...home-town paper in what Menzies calls "the most competitive news town since the word go." Boston, until recently, has had more papers per capita than any city in the United States. In the 1880's and '90's, six papers competed with the Globe;advertisers, by threatening to switch to other papers, wieled crippling power. If rain was predicted for Easter, advertisers forbade the Globeto print the weather on Good Fritay for fear that sales would slip. The Globetad no choice but to comply...
...losses trimmed Labor's Com mons majority to 74, down from the comfortable 97 won two years ago. The elections showed an 18.2% swing to the Tories, the biggest switch between the two parties since the surprise result that ousted Winston Churchill in 1945. If elections were held now, on the basis of last week's count the Conservatives would win 420 of the 630 seats in the Commons, picking up no fewer than 270 from Labor. "If the government cannot reverse its present unpopularity," warned the London Times, "there will inevitably be a further political crisis...
...speculators as a surprise, central bankers had been quietly discussing the shutdown of the London gold pool and the move to the split-price system since British devaluation. Italy and Belgium, restive at the growing drain on their reserves, remained in the pool only at U.S. prodding. Timing the switch presented delicate problems. By waiting for repeal of a 1945 law requiring a 25% gold backing for the currency, the U.S. could muster another $10.4 billion of gold for the defense of the dollar abroad. By discomfitingly small margins, the measure squeaked through Congress just in time. Last week...