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...tanzen, into a hooded wool coat and turned striped cloth used to lead horses on ceremonial occasions into a jersey. He made tucked cotton jumpsuits so intricate that he evoked origami, the ancient art of paper folding, and he turned a farmer's backpack into a knit jacket. Says he: "I was trying to peel away to the limit of fashion...
...jinks, the sleuthing hero is an actor, just like George, a private pilot, just like George, and is named-you guessed it-George Kennedy. Avon books has run off 185,000 paperback copies and the film rights have already been snapped up. As for the plot, well, the book jacket copy says it all: "Lights! Camera! Murder! The picture had box-office bucks written all over it. Top talent, a big budget and a great script. Until someone on the set started changing the story line to murder. " Maybe it will all lead to a sequel, say, a psychological thriller...
...mustachioed little clown with an undersize jacket and oversize trousers to symbolize IBM's first computer aimed at the mass market? That hardly fits IBM's stuffy old image, but when the company needed an advertising campaign for its new personal computer 2½ years ago, it turned to one of the 20th century's most enduring and endearing characters: Charlie Chaplin's Tramp. Says Charles Pankenier, director of communications for the PC: "We were dealing with a whole new audience that never thought of IBM as a part of their lives." Industry insiders estimate that...
Then came the summer when you were sent home from the front, after the fresh troops got there, and the first thing you saw when you got to the States was the barefoot girls in their summer dresses pedaling bicycles past the sea. In your jacket you carried a photograph of the soldier that had been you, a keepsake of the afternoon you sank your boots firmly in the sand that slopes into the Mediterranean that lies beside Beirut. In the photograph you looked older than the cliché-older than the hills. You would fetch the picture from your...
...points; 100% attendance is worth 25 points. Every year, on the anniversary of the program's Feb. 2, 1981, launching date, points are totted up, and a record is sent to the individual's home. Upon reaching 100 points, the worker gets a light blue nylon jacket emblazoned with the company logo and a patch signifying membership in the 100 Club. Every one of the plant's employees has now earned a jacket...