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...girls twelve to 15 years old, but it lacks the proportion for an older woman," says Valentino, who thinks that a woman's best years are between 30 and 50. "The vieille petite fille-the old little girl-looks ridiculous." Thus Valentino hemlines rise no more than one inch above the knee, and necklines are high. Yet the Valentino look is anything but matronly: bright, gay colors and trim, geometric lines characterize his designs; sheer luxury is one of their chief appeals. It is the kind of luxury that means fabrics costing as much as $140 per yard, three...
...Glider. The also-flowns were as notable as the winners. One contestant sent in a dollar bill folded into a glider with the explanation: "It goes fast." There was a flying-saucerlike "Frisbee Flyer"-two paper plates and an infinitesimal folded fleck of foil only one-eighth of an inch long by one-sixteenth of an inch wide-made, appropriately, by Aerospace Corp.'s Space
...player I've ever had." > St. John's University's Albie Swartz is described in the game programs as 5 ft. 10 in. tall and 175 Ibs. Unless he is still growing at 21, he'll never get that big. Although he is one-half inch shorter and six pounds lighter than billed, Albie is "my coach on the floor," says his coach, Lou Carnesecca. As field general of a team that has won 19 out of 22 games, Swartz insists that "the big guys on defense don't bother me when it comes...
...books. He knows the rituals and rules of gang fighting, which are as elaborate as the code duello. He plays it cool under the scrutiny of the head-breakers (police) and can find his way to black-and-white parties in Greenwich Village pads. He knows every malodorous inch of the eight-block Harlem area that is the Playboys' turf, and he has earned the nickname "King" by taking over the leadership of the gang from Raven, who had fatally misjudged a leap from one tenement rooftop to another...
Noel Hare, who placed second, jumped 22 ft. 111/4 in. but lost by half an inch. Hare had been injured and out of competition for a month before the meet. Bob Galliers finished third at 22-8 1/4, and John Avault was fifth...