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...shoe of shoes was the one that was almost invisible: a clear plastic model decorated with baubles and bangles that appeared to float on the foot. Launched this week by Yves St. Laurent, who shows 40 pairs, the shoe is the creation of Roger Vivier, 52, Paris master bottier who now designs for nine major Paris couturiers...
With his wife on one arm and $1,500 in a plastic bag under the other, he plunked down the electoral filing fee in Little Rock nearly four months before the legal deadline. Winthrop is bound and determined that the boy from Greazy Creek, Governor Orval Faubus, will never again defeat him the way he did in the 1964 gubernatorial race. Faubus has not said whether he will try for a seventh term, but his friends have a feeling that he is the only Democrat in the state who can keep Republican Rockefeller down on the farm...
...quality of the first Scorpion is uneven, ranging from a what-the-hell-is-it piece called "Eight Days" to David Ansen's '67 readable and polished short story "And Baby Makes Three." Ansen's story is about plastic, formica, sensitivity, and sex in Southern California. Specifically, it is the story of three generations of women who are chronic losers at love. With excellent dialogue and good characterization, the piece moves along, jumping (not always smoothly) from one "great line" to the next. The reader is delighted to see the entertainment at a bar, consisting of a Mexican guitar troupe...
...earnings for ten years (to a total of $55 million) in a string of satellite petrochemical plants on 2,600 surrounding acres. The satellites will be owned jointly by Phillips, other U.S. companies and Puerto Rican investors, will turn out urea for fertilizers, polyethylene, polystyrene and polyester for plastic or synthetic fiber products, synthetic rubber, carbon black and nylon...
...customers a day. Apparently, their problems were serious. "In the opinion of the beauticians," reported Tass, "the most difficult thing is to convince the patients that the tragic defects in their appearance do not demand medical attention." Just in case they do, however, the institute's plastic surgery department will offer a complete line of nose bobs at a flat rate of 50 rubles per capita...