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...Dior Look. Russia's largest domestic problem has always been agriculture. Under Brezhnev and Kosygin, the collective farms have been given price increases; collective farmers have been permitted to add to their private plots, have had their income taxes reduced, their prices raised as well. Most important of all-if Moscow follows through-is a new five-year plan doubling the amount of investment in agriculture, which at $9 billion represents a massive shift in resource allocation to what has always been the stepchild of the Soviet economy...
...promulgated by Kharkov Economist Evsei Liberman in an effort to gear the economy away from planning fiat to what buyers want (TIME cover, Feb. 12). Moscow has launched a concerted drive to improve Soviet advertising, even sent the female director of a Moscow store to visit the House of Dior in Paris last month with an eye toward more stylish Russian dress designs. The Kremlin is considering a new plan upping automobile output, plans to manufacture some $8 billion in consumer goods next year, and has increased workers' wages 4.5% this year -v. Khrushchev's average annual boost...
...hour-and of spring and summer too-was Dior's Marc Bohan. Overshadowed a few seasons ago by the much-heralded Yves St. Laurent, Bohan was clearly back In, with tenure. In a bouleversant collection hailed as the most beautiful in years, Bohan took fashion out of the bony grasp of the mannequins and gave it back to the women whose extra inch of hip or bosom, however fetching to the male eye, have made them high fashion's untouchables. Exclaimed Best-Dressed Jacqueline de Ribes: "I am so happy...
...Dior suits have flaring jackets and full, pleated or gathered skirts. Dresses, in sunny pastels and fresh flowered prints, acknowledge the shapes they clothe; so do the coats, with narrow belts that define waistlines instead of camouflaging them. There was not a pair of pants or a bared navel in the show, or a single lament for their absence. The Bohan brand of exotica-soft silk tunics, rajah coats, full-length sheaths cut above the ankle in front-may have been inspired by the designer's trip to India last fall. But the results are all Paris...
...much in common with massive Spanish cabinetry, which is also coming back into vogue. Both mix well with the trim structural look of modern furnishings. Painter Pierre Soulages took a fancy to Louis XIII, and Manhattan Art Collector and Banker Robert Lehman uses it to accent his apartment. Dior's top designer, Marc Bohan, redecorated his apartment in the period. "I like things simple, austere even," he says. "It's my style. Also the soft, neutral colors of Louis Treize suit me." As different a type as Novelist James Jones also has decorated his Paris duplex with Louis...