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...gala starring Guest of Honor Ethel Kennedy and Entertainers Harry Belafonte, Arlo Guthrie and Buffy Sainte-Marie to raise money for the impoverished U.S. Indians. Although some 300 guests paid up to $125 a ticket, the host could not even light a peace pipe right. Wearing a navy velvet jacket and turquoise beads given him by a Hopi chief, Brando arrived flanked by three magnificently attired Indians after announcing: "There's something obscene about dressing up and inviting a lot of rich people to raise money for the Indians." Paparazzo Ron Galella, who was felled last year by Brando...
...rattle, tables and chairs tremble. A fitting prelude to Andreas Papandreou's appearance in Syntagma Square? Perhaps. For the former Berkeley and Harvard economics professor, leader of the new Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), had brought an unsettling element to the campaign. Barnstorming the country in a black leather jacket, followed by hordes of young people in jeans and faded army field jackets, he brought a new style of campaigning to Greece and emerged as a political messiah of the young...
...stand on a controversial issue-he takes it. Instead of giving a long-winded, inconclusive answer to a provocative question he offers a resolute "Yup" or "Nope." In fashion-conscious Manhattan, he would make anybody's list of worst-dressed candidates of the year. Often he wears a jacket that is either worn or torn and rarely matches his denim trousers, a threadbare tie that he bought for $1 in 1967 and Hush Puppies. His campaign style is in keeping with his dress. He is not surrounded by pollsters and media consultants. From all conventional appearances, Clark is scarcely...
...Plaid-Jacket Firing...
...sympathy goes out to Photographer Kent Henderson of the Long Beach Independent Press-Telegram, who was sworn at by Richard Nixon. Being assigned to photograph a President can be hazardous to your health and wealth. I know. I was fired by Nixon and his cronies for wearing a plaid jacket [during the swearing-in at Nixon's second Inauguration]. At least Henderson still has his job. I would rather have been "cussed out" than...