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...natural resort for large corporations is the executive and now the Pentagon," Galbraith said last night. "Congress is closer to the average citizen and small businesses, and will be more responsive since the people can more easily vote them...
...overall decline was due to a decrease in the far larger number of property-oriented crimes: robbery, burglary, larceny and auto theft. There is some question as to whether police efforts have been as important to that trend as the increasing tendency to resort to such individual defensive tactics as private alarm systems and auto steering-wheel locks...
First night out on a cruise ship? A campus mixer for freshmen? A new crowd gathering for a resort weekend? None of these. It is instead a get-acquainted scene at a new establishment called Chateau D'Vie, which bills itself as the "untraditional year-round country club for singles only...
...ingredients of a made-for-TV movie. The newly appointed colonial governor of a subtropical resort isle is taking the evening breeze in the manicured gardens of the governor's mansion. At his side are his handsome young aide-de-camp and his pet Great Dane. Suddenly a shadow comes to life, gunfire shatters the calm and the Governor and his aide fall dead. Even the dog lies lifeless. A state of emergency is declared, the airport is monitored and homicide experts are flown in from Scotland Yard...
Whether clothes meant for lawn parties and limousines will make it big on the buses and subways remains to be seen. Some retailers, like Boston's Jordan Marsh, say that the tennis look is already selling well for resort wear. Lord & Taylor has enthusiastically bought nearly all of the Albini collection, and New York's giant Alexander's, which specializes in translating luxury fashions into mass sales, is promoting the Gatsby theme in every department. Its mannequins wear short or bobbed hair under cloche and Panama hats, Art Deco jewelry in clunky imitation ivory, long rope necklaces...