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...past 14 years she has bought all her clothes at Mainbocher, with the exception of a dress or two she may pick up in Paris. Mainbocher, the classicist of simple lines and uncluttered elegance at stratospheric prices, and Ceezee were made for each other; her bright coloring and trim figure flatter his clothes, while their understated chic expresses Ceezee inside as well as outside...
...Case For. Most businessmen, particularly the big industrialists, favor Britain's entry, thereby arousing labor union suspicions that they plan to trim British wages to Continental levels. Actually, those levels are rising.* More significantly. Common Market membership would shake up labor's soft and featherbedded ways. At present, British workers are immobile, hence many areas suffer from a severe labor shortage; plants will do anything-including slowing down production-to keep workers. British industry would have to take drastic steps to reorganize and re-equip. Many British businessmen agree that the "bracing cold shower." as Macmillan describes European...
...whom he's going to pass. If it's rough, you must watch the sea. If it's fluky, you must watch for direction changes, keep an eye on the cat's-paws. You must watch the balance of the boat and trim the sails. The scene is always changing; every puff of wind means something in relation to your opponent...
...going to get back 100%." After enviously eying the handball court, solarium and showers over at Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department, Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg, 53, set up an exercise room, for his own laborers. Trim and flat-bellied. Goldberg nevertheless planned to spend a lot of time there. "When your frustrations begin to get the best of you," said the man-in-the-middle of arguments ranging from sopranos to flight engineers, "working over the punching bag is great medicine...
Legacy from Adolf. A trip in a Rodriquez hydrofoil is like water-skiing in a bus. Projecting down from the ferry's trim speedboat hull are legs with winglike metal skis on the end. As the ship picks up speed, the hull rises out of the water and skims along on its skis. Because it has only the drag of the skis, a Rodriquez hydrofoil needs only half the power of a conventional boat to achieve the same speed. More important, its top speed is three times that of the average conventional ferryboat-which means that it can move...