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...people are able to associate the beautiful for coat they wear with the bloody hide of the slaughtered animal," Gregory C. Wilson, leader of the Eudangered Species project, said yesterday. "To me, the most incongruous sight is that of a girl in a raccoon coat with a peace button on her lapol...
Late yesterday afternoon a young secretary wearing a peace button approached the manager of a looted jewelry store to tell him that she was "disgusted, and sympathetic with you." She said she wanted him to know that "the people who are interested in peace were not the people who broke your windows...
...strapping, bearded, 6-ft. Marshall is a magisterial figure in the pulpit. On his clerical robes, he wears the cross-in-the-fist button of the National Committee of Black Churchmen, and the black, red and green "liberation"* colors-which are evident elsewhere in the church: on a prayerbook on the altar, in a flag on the wall...
...exhibit of memorabilia on display at the Hallmark Gallery in New York includes a "Phooey on Dewey" button, a collection of walking sticks, and the 1901 Independence, Mo., high school yearbook showing Harry and Bess in their caps and gowns. A saltier item among the souvenirs on loan from the Harry S. Truman Library is the ex-President's reply to a tongue-in-cheek suggestion from a U.S. Senator that he appoint the late John L. Lewis Ambassador to Russia. The mine workers' boss, reasoned Truman's correspondent, had a "more formidable" look than Stalin...
...sultry, deep-Delta Tallulah, La., looks and acts the archetypal Southern cop. There is the ample belly hanging over the gun belt as the massive, 6-ft. 2-in. figure swaggers down the sidewalk. There is the natty uniform with gold stars on a white starched shirt, a button open at the neck. And there is the amiable cockiness, the touch of braggadocio, the blunt cigar and the smile revealing two gold-crowned teeth. Only one anomaly destroys the stereotype: Chief Wyche is black...