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...vivant, he swings with more of an old-fashioned zest for good wine, women, song and conversation than with any new lifestyle. He used to be a regular guest, for instance, at the elegant Establishment soirees of fustian Columnist Joseph Alsop, once even offering to wear a dinner jacket if Alsop would invite Stokely Carmichael. (Neither ever happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Middle-Aged Rebel | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...newcomer of 25, when he walked into a fashionable party where all but he were in formal dress, took in the situation at a glance and said reassuringly: "Now I don't want anyone to feel embarrassed." He has it still, dapper in a brown dinner jacket, hand elegantly holding aloft the perpetual cigarette, answering a request for a definition of the perfect life with a single word: "Mine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Noel Coward at 70 | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...some 40 chapters around the U.S. The Panthers themselves refuse to give figures; echoing Malcolm X, they contend that "those who know don't say, and those who say don't know." The members include both men and women. Since the once familiar uniform of black leather jacket, turtleneck sweater and black beret has been so widely affected by non-Panthers, they now wear it less frequently. Panther funds come mainly from the 25? newspaper, which sells as many as 100,000 copies a week, and from speaking fees for Panther leaders-although law-enforcement officials contend that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Police And Panthers: Growing Paranoia | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...station signs you see by the highway all the time, at the eastern edge of Gallup, New Mexico, when the girl picked me up. It was about nine o'clock. Thursday morning, August 14. The girl driving the car looked about five feet tall, and she wore a leather jacket over a maroon-and-blue striped knit T-shirt, and a hemless mini-skirt made from cut-off corduroy jeans. She had a sharp face-rather pronounced cheekbones, triangular eyes, and a smail, sharp nose. Her blondish hair was uniformly short except for one long, very thin braid in back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Road from Gallup to Albuquerque: | 12/18/1969 | See Source »

...philosopher, Michael Bridge, has attracted attention by wearing a "Philosopher Available" sign on his jacket and by shouting "Free Thoughts for Intelligent Questions." Bridge says he engages at least 15 people in "meaningful conversations" every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 12/15/1969 | See Source »

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