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...month-old lumbosacral strain was, by official accounts, coming along fine. After a couple of days of rest at Middleburg, the President hopped about on his crutches with decreasing evidence of pain. Although Kennedy had twice recently reinjured his back-once by tilting too far back in his black leather swivel chair, another time by leaning too hastily over his desk to sign some letters-Dr. Travell said that her patient would soon be off his crutches. Just the same, Kennedy canceled a trip to the Governors' Conference in Hawaii, bowed out as the guest of honor...
Fabrics, more than color, are the big highlights. Leather, knit and tweed are big (often combined, particularly by Bonnie Cashin). Cassini and Pauline Trigère have richly printed brocades, Dior-New York shows them in fine, polished, often solid colors. Tiffeau is using lizard in trim and whole cloth for a waterproof, black evening raincoat. For shimmer and shine, the original beads-and-glitter girl, Roxanne of Samuel Winston, has some old-style heavy beaded dresses as well as new lighter ones. Scaasi's long dresses have so much sparkle that many come with protective theatrical capes. Larry...
Back in Portugal, Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar was all calmness and rhetoric last week in his first interview in years with a U.S. newsman, the New York Times's Benjamin Welles. Shod in high-laced boots, relaxing in a leather chair, onetime Economics Professor Salazar might have been lecturing woolly-headed students. Did he plan economic and social reforms for terror-ridden Angola? "The rhythm of implementation of programs of social advancement will not be slowed down but rather the contrary, if possible . . . It is possible we may have erred on the side of excessive caution and tolerance...
Gibbings' new pieces have their models' clean, simple lines and gracefully swooping curves, which can be fitted easily into the modern split-level, while at the same time suggesting the ageless charm of antiquity. In the Gibbings collection is a leather-topped folding stool with four sturdy horse legs, which was copied from a mid-6th century earthen plaque in the West Berlin State Museum. Other straight-legged stools are borrowed from a frieze in the Parthenon. Copied line for line and curve for curve from the stele of Hegesco, built in 400 B.C., is a large chair...
Produced in Greek walnut, bronze and leather, Gibbings' collection of 19 pieces, almost totally handcrafted, costs a Pyrrhic $10,000, but Gibbings hopes to mass-produce a complete line in Greece for the more modest buyer. "People are now ready to accept the classical environment in their homes," says Gibbings. "We need to return to the ancient Greek practice of perfecting existing things and not trying to forget them by producing shinier new ones...