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...would like to see an authentic and conservative old-time men's shop, climb the stairs at 4 Linden St. to the atmospheric hideout of Duncan Macandrew, merchant tailor. Outfitting the distinguished and conservative in a manner reminiscent of Saville Row, this shop sells hand-knitted Harris tweed hose and the 1937 four-inch-wide necktie in an incredible collection of haberdashery...
...waisted suit, Cassini peppered his collection with patter ("I got this British accent when I became successful"), describing his clothes with the tact of an unemployed salesman ("This long dress is for girls with bad knees"). Best of his clothes were the suits and suit ensembles, made mostly of tweed or velvet and worn with matching hats (jockey caps, berets, bowlers and pillboxes) and boots. And even better than the clothes were Cassini's prices, lower this year than ever; some dresses retailed for as little...
...when Happy walked up to one animal in the cattle herd and quipped: "This is the first time I have been face-to-face with a bull." Whispered the Governor: "That's not a bull, that's a cow." The newly weds changed (he to a light tweed jacket, tie, rust slacks; she to an orange frock) for a lunch with some 30 reporters and photographers. Rockefeller declined to talk politics. Mrs. Rockefeller said that she had been "called Happy since I was a baby-I would not answer right away if somebody called me Margaretta." She spends...
Tactics of the Boss Tweed era are out of style in Washington, but patronage still figures in the granting of too many jobs. Several bills, now pending in Congress would set state quotas for summer jobs and prohibit discriminatory hiring practices. These measures, along with continued surveillance by the Civil Service Commission, would help to create in fact the strict employment merit system that passed into law eighty years...
...Common Market, and Macmillan's appeal to "work together," were the kind of things that traditionally rallied Britons behind their government. As if to demonstrate his composure, the Prime Minister showed up for a grueling House of Commons debate on the Nassau pact wearing a jauntily informal tweed suit and suede shoes. To Opposition cries that Britain cannot afford to replace its bomber force with a fleet of Polaris-armed nuclear submarines (estimated cost: $1 billion), Macmillan stoutly retorted that the British must continue to have their own nuclear deterrent if they are to "remain allies, not satellites...