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...innovation calls for three-year funding of economic and technical assistance programs. Congress has rejected long-term appropriations proposals in the past on the grounds that they would vest the Executive Branch with too much backdoor, discretionary power in doling out aid. This argument is likely to be heard again from a Congress determinedly asserting its foreign prerogatives. Even so, Nixon's proposal offers smoother organization and some long-needed overhauls in the kind and tone of American foreign...
...34th Street Greyhound station. Upstairs they had a place where you could make pictures for a quarter... Dean made a profile shot and looked coyly-around... Dean was wearing a real Western business suit for his trip back to Denver... blue with pencil stripes, vest and all-eleven dollars on Third Avenue...
...numbers to jet-setters in custom-made styles to grandmothers in sensible versions with matching jackets, women of all ages and sizes are wearing pants. Figure faults -unless they occur above the neck-are easily masked. Straight-leg styles make light of heavy thighs, and an accompanying tunic or vest-jacket can do wonders for a wayward waist and confine hips to a minimum. Moreover, pants are warm, comfortable and practical; properly selected and worn with cleverly alternating tops, two pairs of pants can stand in for a full week's wardrobe...
Coaches may shudder at some of the lifestyles, but most take it in stride -though Cornerback Earsell Mackbee claims that he was cut from the Minnesota Vikings this season for showing up one day in a red lace jumpsuit, a fake fur maxi vest and a slouch hat. "Freedom to express your own personality makes for a winning team," says the 49ers' Ken Willard. "It's the swinging feeling around the clubhouse. A feeling that they're them and I'm me." His teammate Gene Washington, who grooves on $350 Oscar de la Renta suits, deplores...
Barbara's husband Lance was the foreman of the unloading crew at the cannery, operating the hoist that carried loads of fish from the boats up to the unloading dock, and tallying the weights. In his dirty white Levis, his quilted parka vest, with his wavy black hair combed back and a Camel firmly in the corner of his mouth, Lance looks about the way you'd expect an unloading foreman in a small town on the coast of Alaska to look...