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Other designers' offerings ran true to form: Grės' intricate chiffons, Castillo's long slim crepes, Capucci's stiff white collars. Pierre Cardin still reigned as Lord High Poohbah of Limp, displayed a group of floppy fashions and judged the season's loveliest. But with the Big Three-St. Laurent, Balenciaga and Givenchy-still three weeks away from showtime, the season was less past than prelude. The shape of things to come may still be drastically altered-but so, of course, can dresses already ordered...
Also at the Paramout is a curious featurette "The Wandering Wind" about a chaotic hot-air balloon race across the Catalina Channel. After much colorful preparation, gay music, and chatty reportage we see a stiff wind carry the only female contestant's balloon out to sea through a cotton candy cloud. A drab black and white newsreel, clipped on at the end, shows a rescue boat recovering her drowned body...
After today's encounter the swordsmen will face three opponents on the road. Penn will host them this Saturday and should provide stiff opposition, since the Quakers have beaten strong N.Y.U. and Navy teams...
...fifth of the nation's colleges, are conducted on the honor system, without proctors. At Colorado Springs, students may take the same tests days apart. As potential officers and gentlemen, cadets are expected not to cheat. Those who fail to report a cribber are subject to the same stiff punishment (expulsion) as the cheater himself.* The cadet manual warns that "there will be no shading, no equivocation, no quibbling among honorable...
Admissions people are impressed with a regal straight A in organic; but they are enchanted with a common B-plus in a stiff mathematics course; and they are orgastic over a vulgar C-minus in physical chemistry...