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...Margaret's whole trip-together with her top-secret wardrobe-is meant, among other things, to boost Britain's $10 million-a-year fashion trade with the U.S. For the luncheon, Margaret wore a silver-and-white brocade dress with matching coat, a mink hat and a spray of diamonds. For U.S. women, who are continually perplexed by British royalty's choice of clothes, the New York Times's Charlotte Curtis elucidated: "It is the kind of thing British royalty often wears, whether snipping a ribbon or watching the horses at Ascot...
...drowned its daddy. Shaken but unhurt, Breedlove riveted two stabilizing wings on Spirit's nose, and last week he was back for another try. Waving to his crew, Breedlove pushed the throttle forward, and Spirit shot off across the flats, trailing a huge rooster tail of salt spray in its wake. "At first," he said later, "there was some vibration, and the car was moving around a little bit. But before I went into the measured mile, everything smoothed out. It was beautiful...
...damage was inflicted by a group of six Dartmouth students who had purchased three spray cans of "Hunter Green" spray paint in Hanover, New Hampshire, Friday afternoon. They wandered through the Yard spraying large D's, "Dartmouth," and illegible squiggles on stairways and cornerstones of University, Harvard, Massachusetts, and Emerson halls. They also sprayed three freshman dormitories, and the yellow signs on the front of Johnson and Meyer gates...
...Dartmouth students had originally intended to spray John Harvard's statue, one of the organizers told the CRIMSON last night, but the statue was too heavily guarded. Three of the students attempted to divert Yard police, but they were unsuccessful...
Such idiosyncrasies of taste make the export business as tricky as it is lucrative. The Flintstones are No. 1 in Sweden and the favorite viewing of Rhodesia's Sir Roy Welensky, but they were ignominiously reduced to background characters in a fly-spray commercial in Italy. Perry Como hit a clinker on Germany's Infratest ratings, Andy Williams on Britain's TAM's. And even blockbuster Bonanza was clobbered by Rawhide in Korea. Another complication in foreign-syndication sales is that U.S. shows come in awkward lengths (a half-hour program has only 26 minutes...