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When permanents first came into fashion, not only a woman's hairdresser but everyone else too knew for sure. The springy mass of kinky curls that at best looked like Shirley Temple's and at worst like a Brillo pad was all too easy to identify. Women eventually smartened up and went straight, turning to the long, sometimes stringy look of the late '60s and early '70s. Now the curls are back, thanks to a hairdo dubbed the "unpermanent...
...uncomfortable side of the law as defendants in a Washington federal courtroom, separated by a vacant chair-and a frosty silence. For 45 awkward, painful minutes, during a courtroom lull in the jury selection process, John Ehrlichman, baggy-eyed and subdued, bent purposefully over a yellow legal pad. The normally dour H.R. Haldeman, his crew cut turned sleekly long, glanced tentatively at his onetime friend, but got no encouragement. Before stepping out to smoke his pipe, a pale, drawn, considerably older-looking John Mitchell, 61, had sat aloof. Once the nation's chief law enforcer as Attorney General...
...charging low fares. In the courts, Moss's lawyers so far have battled the FAA to a standoff, and he has managed to lease a Convair 880 to replace the DC-8. Though there have been no Freelandia flights for months, Moss sits in his Hollywood Hills pad and dreams of flying high again...
...sequins perhaps, but glitter and lots of it. Sprinkle glitter in shaker cans for the face. Plastic mirrors for bracelets. Reflecting collars, spangled spacesuits, and gloves with dog-pad mirror plates. Jobriath designs all the costumes himself. He considers the outfits an integral part...
Throughout the meeting, Nixon appeared confident, jotted notes on a pad and listened intently to opinions. No fresh suggestions for improving the economy were offered, but most businessmen pressed for a cut in corporate taxes and expressed growing concern about the disruptive impact of towering interest rates on money markets. For the first time, the President expressed some uneasiness that the Federal Reserve Board's tight-money policy might tip the economy into recession. That, he feared, might prompt Congress to push for more expansionary policies and to pass "silly" legislation that would further fuel inflation. At week...