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FURS BY ASTOR by John Upton Terrell. 490 pages. Morrow. $6.95.
By signing the cambiali with abandon to finance everything from furs to apartments, thousands upon thousands of Italians have run up staggering debts. Nearly every day the Italian press discovers another case of someone obli gated to pay out more monthly on cambiali than he actually earns. Almost everyone does...
"My clothes are like the portrait of Dorian Gray," she says somewhat inexactly. "They never get dirty or old." They have no chance. She has over $2,000 worth of Jax slacks. Friends have given her all sorts of furs. Her 80 pairs of shoes are arranged in closets according...
"The basement is a small, hot, smelly, crowded, racky place," admits Hodgkinson, "but it's also a happy hunting ground." A three-level, block-long area pocked with gaspipe racks and dingy wooden counters, the basement sells more goods per square foot of space than any other store in...
Some Western manufacturers hope that the U.S.-Soviet nuclear test ban agreement will stimulate more orders from Moscow. Russia is the East's biggest trader, last year exported $1.9 billion to the West, mostly in furs, oil, iron ore and timber; it imported $1.7 billion worth of Western goods...