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Into the West German mails this week went 3,500,000 copies of a 400-page catalogue that will set off a long-distance shopping spree in homes from Bremerhaven to Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The catalogue is the latest and fattest from Frankfurt's Neckermann Mail Order House, offers Germans 5,500 items at prices as much as 40% lower than those of competing retail stores. This year, for the first time, the orders (averaging nearly 40,000 a day) will pour into a massive new steel and concrete headquarters now being taken over by the expanding firm. Built...
...their pre-spring shopping spree, more than 4,400 buyers went to Manhattan last week, saw the new 1960 fashions-and were conquered. Eagerly they hustled up and down from one S.R.O. showroom to another in Manhattan's garment district, where as many as 45 showings per day crammed the schedule. The designers played up what the fashion buffs call "wearability" (sensible clothes that fit in pretty well with any style or season) and "packability" (fresh emphasis on lightweight and non-crush, drip-dry convenience fabrics). There was a smart swing to dresses made from printed scarf material, dresses...
...best places to visit in ten days Ike chose the traditional ABC countries, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, plus neighboring Uruguay; among them, the four nations account for 50% of Latin America's people. Brazil, under destiny-conscious President Juscelino Kubitschek, is surging with a great industrial spree, marred by a possibly ruinous inflation. In Argentina, President Arturo Frondizi, sacrificing popularity and his oldtime leftist principles, is taking Argentina along the harsh, bitter road of hard work and self-denial, back from the handout, statist economics of Dictator Peron. In Chile, bachelor President Alessandri is trying to get Chile back...
...display typewriter and banged out a desperate note: "Why don't you wait on me?" All over the U.S. last week, harried clerks were faced with similar problems as they tried to placate hordes of well-heeled customers who nocked into the stores for a record Christmas-buying spree. Dun & Bradstreet analysts estimated that sales in the nation's department stores and mail-order houses will reach a record $2.4 billion in December, up $200 million from 1958, the previous record...
...weeks relations between Iceland's 170,000 citizens and the U.S. garrison at the great NATO base at Keflavik Airport had been growing steadily touchier. On the Fourth of July a group of U.S. airmen went on a drinking spree at Thingvellir, a pastoral spot sacred to all Icelanders as the first meeting place (in A.D. 930) of the Althing, the oldest continuous Parliament in the world. Last month a U.S. officer's wife was arrested on the suspicion of drunken driving. She phoned the airbase and almost immediately the Icelandic police were surrounded by U.S. troops...