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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Star of the showings was West Coast Designer James Galanos. His dresses were often tailored close to the figure, and belts were placed high to emphasize the bosom. One culotte dress had large, oval-cut armholes, another a V neck slashed almost to the navel. Evening gowns featured the bare look with slanting necklines draped off one shoulder...
...year (near tops in the U.S.), it cannot lure enough recruits. New York City has nearly three times as many people as Los Angeles, more than five times as many police. In Los Angeles, only 5,035 men cover 458 sq. mi.-roughly ten cops per square mile, v. 39 in the average U.S. community...
...another, police sometimes seem to view Negroes and Mexicans (24% of the populace) through the eyes of an occupation army. Only 4% of the force are Negroes, compared with 13.5% of the population. By comparison, of New York City's regular, transit and housing police, 9% are Negroes, v. 15% of the population. The minorities seem sometimes in the grip of an anti-cop mystique that turns every attempt to enforce the law into an outrageous act of persecution...
...Frills v. Flights. Understandably. Eastern has been loath to fiddle with the Air-Shuttle formula: 16 roundtrip, no-reservation flights a day, with back up planes ready to take the overflow...
...costly flops on a couple of aircraft (Saturn and Constitution) and crashes on others, notably the Electra. As the Defense Department's biggest single contractor five years running, Lockheed has seen its profits increase to more than $51 million (on sales of over $2 billion) last year v. $37,200,000 in 1962. Though disappointed over losing the SST competition to Boeing, the company expects continuing defense demands, diversification into such areas as oceanography, will keep it healthy...