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Among the men behind Topic are John Powell, a British construction and real estate magnate who is given credit as the magazine's founder, a fur importer, a paper manufacturer, three kin of the Guinness clan (stout and beer), and Maurice Macmillan, 40-year-old son of Britain's Prime Minister. Its editor is Morley Richards, 54, a craggy and capable journalist with 28 years' experience on Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express (circ. 4,313,063), 14 of them as news editor...
Crossing from Austria into Yugoslavia differs little from crossing any other Western European boundary. True, there is a double border, one for passport inspection, one for customs; and the customs official, a ruddy man with an immense fur overcoat and Russian style hat, is even more humorless than his American counterpart. This particular one showed no response whatsoever to one tourist's pathetic attempts to cope with a Serbo-Croatian customs form, though his stoniness did finally soften when another tourist requested extra stamps for her passport. For a moment, he relaxed his suspicious glare, smiled, and stamped her passport...
Unique Anatomies. Other animals in the N.I.H. menagerie are prized for their unique anatomies. The primitive mammalian ear of the possum is used for hearing experiments. The simple retina of the squid proves to be an aid in eye research. Chinchillas, described as "castoffs not suitable for fur coats," have middle-ear cavities larger and more accessible than those of other mammals. Physiologists are able to explore the neural pathways involved in hearing...
Since the coypu's natural predators (alligators, crocodiles and certain types of foxes and eagles) are all back in South America, the animal has flourished in East Anglia's bogs and fens. Commercial trappers are not interested in its fur: the nutria vogue in Britain declined some years ago. A few British restaurants serve coypu (whose taste resembles veal), thoroughly disguised as "Argentine hare." But the coypu's only real enemy is England's furious farmer who, prevented by law from using poison-which would also kill off harmless animal life-prowls the marsh with trap...
Ivan the Terrible. Accessories are as full of movement as the clothes themselves. Hats are young and flattering, tend to frame the face instead of sweeping down to smother it. Ricci's "Ivan the Terrible" model is a fat acorn of fur, and Cardin's "Davy Crockett" curls an entire fox (in brown, red or black) around the head. Feet, as well as bodies, are treated considerately once more after seasons of cramping toes into shoes that darted into stiletto points or simply blunted off the second joints, the rounded-toe look is back-although Dior...