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...Juan workshop, Designer Gonzalo Chavez, 36, a native New Yorker who calls himself Mr. Terp, has been painstakingly assembling pop-top rings into glittering dresses, vests, stoles, belts, miniskirts and maxiskirts-all resembling the mailed armor worn by warriors of the Middle Ages to ward off sword blows. Collecting the rings from rubbish heaps behind San Juan bars, Chavez files down their rough edges' and crochets them together with silver thread. It is a slow process. When he began making the pop-tops last spring, it took Chavez a day to complete a 600-ring vest 20 inches long...
Considering Chavez's labors, the price of pop-tops is remarkably low. A 600-ring vest costs $60, a 1,000-ring stole goes for $100 and a 2,800-ring maxicoat sells for $350. The most recent creation, a picture hat with a raffia band, can be adjusted into shapes that range from a cowboy stetson to a Garbo cloche, and costs $50. At those prices, the pop-tops have become the sensation among Puerto Rico's livelier...
When Robert Kennedy was killed, Unruh says, "I nearly went crazy." Later he found that R.F.K.'s death taught him "a sense of high-risk politics." Says Unruh: "I was always a very cautious, close-to-the-vest politician. Now politics has stopped being a game with me. So much of my early trouble came because I simply didn't give a damn. When I started out, it was with the idea of changing things with idealism. Then how quickly the system picked me up and got me involved, and how long it took me to realize that...
Secret Smile. It was only the beginning of otherworldliness. Before the day ended, Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi -Manson's opposite in a carefully tailored gray suit and vest, possessor of an enviable record of successful prosecutions-had attributed to the vagueness of a Beatles' song part of Manson's motive in directing the murders. In an outline of his case, delivered to the jury of seven men and five women in an understated manner that belied its content, Bugliosi elaborated on the Beatles' theme...
...parties when we would be happier with Scotch or gin; we don bell-bottoms when we would rather be in tweeds; we jump into affairs when we would rather be at home in bed-asleep. The visible result often is a compromise: the staid Wall Street lawyer, in vest, rep tie and cuffed trousers in the daytime, who turns Bloomingdale hippie in the evening, donning tie-dyed pants and tank top to weed the garden...