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...Rolls-Royce of the fashion trade," says Manhattan's Mainbocher, and it is a simple statement of fact. At 72, the short, round little man with the synthetic name can boast that his clothes are the most carefully made, the slowest to change, and among the most expensive in the world. If the upper-class look characterizes the lines of both Mainbocher and Balenciaga, "Main's" clothes look like older money...
...Slowest Horse. Marine collectors must content themselves with fewer-and smaller-fish in bigger tanks. Tiny fresh-water tropicals, accustomed to crowded living in a brackish backwater pool, obviously need far less tank space than the denizens of vast coral reefs that are flushed by two tides every...
...there is talk of imposing a capital gains tax and raising the income tax), Italy's loose lira might be frightened into a one-way flight that could mean trouble for Italy's whole financial structure. Last week the Milan stock exchange reflected this uncertainty, with the slowest trading period that Italians could remember...
CONTINENTS just sit there by the centuries, while across their terrains crops grow, peoples wax and wane, and nations struggle. Sometimes even the slowest of continents quickens into the news: Africa's burst of independence three years ago made it something more than a locale for Hemingway movies, and the Middle East region, so volatile in the mid-'sos, is becoming so again. Journalistically, it is increasingly the turn of Latin America. For too many years that area was ignored by many Yanquis, who regarded it as a place inhabited by an undistinguishably homogeneous group of Latins...
...Nicklaus is the slowest player I've ever seen," Sarazen, a two-time Open champ (1922, 1932), told a group of scholarship-winning caddies in Boston. "Slow play becomes a disease. My most vivid memories of slow players are that they vanish quickly from the scene." Sarazen said that he and an 80-year-old partner can still go 18 holes in 2½ hours; Nicklaus has been known to take a good deal longer...