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Orders from Paul. Why did the session slow down? One reason seems to be the overconfidence of the progressive majority's leaders, who did not marshal their forces effectively in the debates. Another factor was council procedure, which proved tailor-made for inaction. Although four cardinal moderators were given executive mandate by Pope Paul, they soon found that they had little operable authority over the twelve council presidents or the six-man secretariat of the council. And in much the way that a committee chairman can bottle up a bill in the U.S. Congress, the Curia men in charge...
Jeweler in the Rough. Kabylia discontent was tailor-made for a disenchanted native son, Hocine Aït Ahmed, who shared a French prison with Ben Bella but is now among the several revolutionary "chiefs" who have been elbowed aside by the strongman. A dreamy Marxist, Aït Ahmed, 37, opposed Ben Bella's outlawing the Communist Party last year. Then last June, on the floor of the National Assembly, Aït Ahmed denounced the government's arrest of an independent chief and Ben Bella critic, leftist Mohammed Boudiaf. Repairing to his Kabylia village of Michelet...
...tailor. To call him Hollywood's No. 1 tailor would be to insult him by suggesting that there could possibly be a No. 2 Hollywood tailor. He gets about $50 a stitch, because his label, in Hollywood, signifies incomparable status. When a star gets into the 10%-of-the-gross category, he is ready for Sy Devore...
...himself dresses humbly, because a good tailor knows his place. He wears black silk-tweed jackets with silver buttons, and black mohair jeans with white double-stitched frontier pockets. He has always resisted his impulse to drive a $40,000 automobile. He scrapes around in a Lincoln Continental instead, and lives in an unostentatious $250,000 house...
...reassure gum-shy Britons that at other times, in other places, gum is not only acceptable but "a definite aid to oral hygiene." Far more subdued than Wrigley messages for masticating Americans, the "Certainly not" ads have stepped up sales. They also exemplify a trend toward tailor-made world advertising that is summed up by McCann-Erickson's Brazil Manager Sergio Souza: "We use internationally recognized methods and appeal to basic human desires and fears. But we add national touches, color and language...