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Shoppers lingered longingly over jumpsuits in gung-ho cuts and colors, carefully fingered exotic fabrics. At Bloomingdale's in Manhattan, swimsuits and playclothes were selling as if August were around the corner. At I. Magnin in San Francisco, suavely tailored pants outfits and evening pajamas vied for attention. Many of the designs, such as Calvin Klein's apron dress and Oscar de la Renta's rhumba number (see color pages), are deftly droll. There were raincoats that managed to be practical and chic as well, T shirts that could be worn to the opera, sportsuits that could...
Though the new revolutionary style of NOW is hardly the bomb-throwing variety, it will mean a return to the gung-ho exhortations and disruptions of 1960s' militants. Toni Carabillo, 49, a NOW official from Los Angeles, told TIME that the group will go in for sit-ins and interruptions of congressional hearings. "Our pattern of professional lobbying has slowed us down, and we'll go back to the former techniques." NOW is also expected to become more explicitly political by endorsing and opposing candidates for public office...
...Last year, the over-crowded, understaffed, ill-equipped gym was the scene of too many chaotic sessions; and so to facilitate teaching and ensure some private attention, the dance students will be charged a nominal $5 fee in hopes that it will weed out the semi-interested from the gung-ho. "We want to have a legitimate dance program," explained Myra Mayman, coordinator of the Office of the Arts--"we're not here to keep people's feet tapping...
...tiny island of disputed nationality where the crewmen were thought (erroneously) to be held. To prevent a Cambodian counterstrike, he ordered two much disputed bombing raids of the Cambodian mainland. At home and abroad, some political experts thought that the show of force, which had many of the gung-ho elements of a John Wayne movie, was excessive. The Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun asked, "Why did [the U.S.] have to use a cannon to shoot a chicken...
...whole feeling of the team is changing in its attitude toward the sport in general," said another veteran. "Everyone's become much more gung-ho, too gung...