Word: washingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...half-convinced that Babe's heroine Pepper derives from Pippi Longstocking, the children's book tomboy who played hooky and didn't wash behind his ears. Neither Pepper nor her big brother Markie can find someone to love them, to make them believe it's worth growing up. Pepper faces down a grey-flannel husband and petty-bourgeois mother-in-law, befriends a looney, and runs off to Europe to find her brother, who carries the world's angst on his shoulders...
Main resistance at first came from housewives, disillusioned by earlier wash-and-wear claims that fell flat. But as word-of-mouth recommendations spread, sales soared across the country. Says Levi Strauss & Co. President Walter Haas Jr., who is selling products on an allotment basis: "The demand is be yond our capacity." Arrow, Manhattan and Van Heusen shirts have converted the majority of their line. On U.S. campuses, undergraduates who proudly used to wear their chinos wrinkled from the local Laundromat are now coming to class well creased. Says one Midwestern college administrator with satisfaction: "Now they...
...April 1, 1957). In this novel about a kindly abortionist and his heterogeneous clientele, she argues that a woman should never have to bear a baby that she doesn't want. There may well be sound arguments in support of this proposition, but they get lost in the wash of a tendentious soap opera...
DEAN W. GIBBONS Seattle, Wash...
Cincinnati 3Baltimore 2 Minnesota 6 New York (A) 3 Boston 10 Wash. 0 St. Louis 7 Chicago (A) 5 Detroit 8 Pittsburgh 7 New York (N) 7 KC 3 Houston 12 Phila. 9 San Fran. 7 Calif. 4 Cleveland 4 Chicago...