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Last week the company was breathing somewhat easier-for the time being. In Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis., A.M.C.'s 11,000 auto-production workers voted to accept the new two-year contract agreed on a week before by company and U.A.W. negotiators. The terms were tailor-made for the auto maker's shaky fortunes. During the first year, for example, the average A.M.C. worker will get only a 120 wage increase over the $3.40 an hour he now earns. That represents a marked concession by the auto union, which had won a 200-an-hour first-year hike...
...breasted gangster suit and ruffled shirt-a combination too much even for him. "Rather awful," he blurted. "I hope it does not look idiotic." Paris Designer Pierre Cardin's vision of future male fashion included black leather pants with a matching leather shirt, laced up the front. Roman Tailor Angelo Litrico, who has made suits for John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Dr. Christiaan Barnard, claimed inspiration from the astronauts; he showed, reading from top to bottom, a visored crash helmet, zippered jacket and wide-striped trousers tucked inside vinyl knee boots. John Glenn will hardly recognize himself...
Died. Michael Popp, 62, Ike's Army tailor during World War II who, after the general complained about his bulky, hip-length officer's jacket, snipped out the natty, waist-length "Eisenhower jacket," which became the most popular bit of military wardrobe since the trench coat; of a heart attack; in Hamilton, Ohio...
...Manhattan. "I was expected to turn out collections based on Dior and Fath," he recalls, "but I was ready to burst out with new ideas." His chance to do so came in 1952, when he teamed up with Walter Bass, a fellow Viennese emigrant and the son of a tailor to royalty. Bass at the time was turning out classic women's suits-tight-fitting, full of darts, and with broad padded shoulders-in a small loft in Beverly Hills. "Rudi was doing these crazy sketches, but nobody knew what to do with them," says Bass. But with Gernreich designing...
...country where titles and family count heavily in business, Weinstock is the son of an immigrant Polish tailor. He was educated at state schools instead of Eton or Harrow, graduated from the University of London rather than Oxford or Cambridge. Weinstock joined General Electric-no kin to the U.S.'s G.E.-in 1961 when G.E.C. bought out Radio & Allied Holdings, an electronics firm founded by his father...