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...fish disappear? No one is sure, but Peck Humphries, president of Standard Products Co. in Virginia's Tidewater country, thinks it is simply a passing phase: "The biologists have some theories for the decline, but usually the fish make liars out of them...
...legs" (some little boy!). An ad for the Cole of California line tried to make you think of that tiny piece of Acrilan acrylic knit as a "sizzle of orange with hot pink." For "a certain kind of woman who'd like to retrace Gauguin's steps," Peck & Peck was arguing that you didn't have to go to Tahiti to wear an island-print bikini...
...centuries A.D. was Egypt's Faiyum region, about 60 miles south of Cairo on the Nile. A fertile farming and business community, it was settled by many retired Roman legionnaires, along with emigrant Greeks, Jews and native Egyptians. It became, according to Egyptologist William Peck, 34, a "prosperous, highly civilized region with a well-developed bureaucratic system of local government, and an elaborate social structure, fairly comparable to Detroit." By a fluke of custom and climate, the residents of Faiyum are today among the best known-or at least most clearly visualized-citizens of classic times. On display last...
With 15 minutes left in the game, Brown held a six point lead. Then two big Bruin starters, 6 ft. 5 in. Steve Sigur and 6 ft. 4 in. Dave Gale got in foul trouble and the Crimson started to peck away at the margin...
When confronted with a choice between Peck and Peck, Filene's, and Bobbi Baker, more Wellesley girls would choose to buy their clothes at Peck and Peck, with Filene's running a close second and Bobbi Baker a long third...