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...America. That would be General William Westmoreland, 53, U.S. commander in Viet Nam and the leading figure on this year's list of best-dressed men. Westmoreland was chosen, said the Fashion Foundation's Charles Richman, because "when you see a military man in a really trim uniform, a thrill goes through you-that's what uniforms are for." The general has yet to be told of his latest victory. "After all," Richman explained, "there...
...going to let anyone put anything else in this. All you want to do is add words, and I'm trying to cut words." The speech thereupon went off to the mimeograph machines and Johnson to White House Barber Steve Martini for a trim. Though many televiewers thought that Martini might have given the President a marcel as well, the difference in his appearance was because Johnson has been letting his hair grow longer, bringing out the silver in it, and has stopped using the hair oil that wags long referred to as "b'ar grease...
Rising Role. In his formidable task of trying to persuade businessmen to comply willingly with controls that many resent, "Sandy" Trowbridge will need all of his considerable charm. Athletically trim (6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.) and handsome as a cinema star, New Jersey-born Trowbridge graduated cum laude from Princeton ('51), won a Bronze Star as a Marine second lieutenant in Korea. A onetime assistant to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (then a Congressman and later Commerce Under Secretary), Trowbridge spent eleven years in the oil industry, mostly in Cuba, El Salvador, the Philippines and Panama. He was president...
...waiting on the right for Nixon to stumble, and meanwhile is making the most of his assertive noncandidacy. He will allow his name to appear on some primary ballots (though not in New Hampshire), perhaps benefit from write-ins elsewhere, and do some traveling to keep in trim. Next week he plans to speak at party fund-raising events in Tulsa, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and St. Louis, make an address in New York and visit Washington. Nixon returns from his holiday this week to receive a Boy Scout award in New York and appear at a Richmond Chamber of Commerce meeting...
...smouldering heart, the seamless brow" of the youthful Day-Lewis began a slow, often painful search for order-a quest that some critics fear may have put his "less Dionysiac" verse at the Establishment's doorstep. Yet the best of his lyrical and narrative poems display a trim, controlled power...