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...York from Germany, France, China and Italy (many of today's top models speak as many as three languages), and in the space of less than two years have risen to command a field until now considered almost a closed U.S. shop. Ironically, the new model is also softer and less alarmingly dramatic, thus making it easier for the ordinary U.S. woman reader to visualize herself (if only she could lose 20 Ibs.) wearing those svelte creations of haute couture...
...same shorthand fate overtook the female planet, Venus, whose Greek name Phosphorus was reduced to Ph (Φ) and subsequently-perhaps by the same careless Grecians-to ø. When medieval alchemists came upon these symbols, they found them useful: δ (Mars) was associated with hard iron, φ (Venus) with softer copper. Later, the symbols were adopted by Swedish Naturalist Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778), the father of modern systematic biology, who found them so aptly descriptive of the male and female gender that they are still used for the same purpose today...
...agreed to the seriousness of the traffic problem, and the need for vigorous leadership. Since that time your support has dwindled steadily and by now has disappeared . . . My attempts to curb the drunk driver, while initially receiving lip service, saw you 'cave in' to pressure for a softer law. These experiences are symptomatic of a sick administration...
...news from Paris last week, as French high-fashion designers called the coming season's styles, was shape. Last winter's flapper rage, the short, unfitted boop-a-doop look, had been inaugurated by Dior's A-shape; this year the alphabet has yielded a softer, swirlier letter as a theme-S. At the end of a week studded with the usual fashion-show crises (Red Cross ambulances stood by for crush victims, models fainted as Zippers caught, Designer Michel Goma was rushed to the hospital with appendicitis), the trend was clear: this year's styles...
...Support. Last year a similar Douglas bill died in committee. But this year Douglas has new support-from the Kennedy Administration. Under White House pressure, the Commerce Department has reversed its stand on the bill, somewhat grudgingly favors it. Some opponents seem willing to support a softer bill. One possible compromise that they were discussing last week: a bill that would require lenders to list either the true interest rate or the total credit cost, but not both...