Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most uniformed employees do not even resent the fact that they have become sophisticated sandwich boards for their employers (many uniforms have the company name or symbol on a pin or concealable pocket flap). Says Assistant Cashier Lou Ann Lougher of Los Angeles' First Western Bank: "My uniform is a conversation piece. People stop me on the street to ask about it." Bank Teller Marta Ronchi concurs, "If I work in a place, I'm proud of it. I'm the type for a uniform; I was raised by the nuns." Although some employees find the career...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT was the first of these childhood heroines. I always associated her with her autobiographical creation. Jo March, eldest of the Little Women, and the two fused as a symbol of dashing individuality and creativity within the loving constraints of the family. When I was eight, I thought nothing could be more glorious than the way Louisa Mary-Jo hid herself in a garret, recording the tearful story of her family's adventures, and then secretly sold the novel to make money to give to her family. In retrospect, I realize that this picture was as deceptively rosy...
Immediately after the main event. Kirkland "A" boat rowers retired to the house of Master Arthur Smithies to drink champagne out of the Aggasiz Cup, symbol of intramural rowing supremacy at Harvard, while Kirkland's "B" boat members, less joyful, rowed the shell back to Weld Boat House...
Hollywood's dark-haired onetime sex symbol, doe-eyed Hedy Lamarr, claims that the book billed as her "autobiography," Ecstasy and Me, My Life as a Woman, is "an obscene, shocking, scandalous, naughty, wanton, fleshy, sensual, lecherous, lustful and scarlet" treatment of her life. So for the second time she slapped a libel suit on its publisher and two coauthors, whom she accuses of distorting interviews with her -this time for $21 million. Still no cigar. The New York Court of Appeals has dismissed the case-not because the book isn't obscene, shocking, scandalous, etc., but because...
Again this season the Crimson is expected to battle its old Adams Cup cronies Penn (seeded fourth) and Navy (rated second) for the Rowe Cup, symbol of heavyweight supremacy in the East. Undefeated Northeastern is ranked third by the Sprints' seeding committee but it has not raced the caliber of competition of the Adams three and is not anticipated to make a serious run for the title...