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...than back home. Sometimes the savings can be even greater. A pair of Levi's 501 jeans selling for $76 in West Germany, for example, can be bought for less than half that price in Los Angeles. At the Louis Vuitton store on Manhattan's East 57th Street, where the most popular handbag sells for $295 (vs. $489 in Tokyo), nearly 50% of the customers are Japanese, and the percentage climbs to 65% at the company's Rodeo Drive outlet in Beverly Hills. Europeans, who make up one-third of the clientele at Stuart Limited, an upscale six-store...
When Vicki Gordon, a producer of CBS's trendy magazine show West 57th, opened this month's issue of Esquire, she was horrified. There on page 142 was a scorching picture of Meredith Vieira, one of the show's on-air correspondents, seated in a chair, head shyly hidden in folded arms -- and pink taffeta skirt hiked up, revealing an extravagance of thighs and a beauty mark on the inside | of her knee. Gordon promptly called the magazine to protest. To her chagrin, she soon learned that Vieira herself was unruffled. Indeed, the 34-year-old journalist had happily posed...
Others cheered Vieira's attitude. Said Helen Gurley Brown, editor of Cosmopolitan: "I've been defending the idea for years that you could be womanly, interested in sex and still be a serious achiever." Declared Andrew Lack, executive producer of West 57th: "I think Meredith is a fascinating woman, and that was reflected in the piece. Being sexy does not compromise your journalistic values...
...rated Morning Program, an empty-calorie confection that replaced the CBS Morning News, was canceled after 10 1/2 months, and its time period was given back to the news division. Next week the network will introduce an ambitious new documentary series, 48 Hours. Added to 60 Minutes and West 57th, that will give CBS three full hours of news programming in prime time -- more than any other network present or past...
Despite the latest happy twist in CBS News' running soap opera, staffers remain wary. "The general mood is up," reports one producer, "but there is a glimmer of concern as to how sincere this all is, or how permanent." Though the jazzy magazine program West 57th has survived its harshest critics and done some solid journalism, its ratings on Saturday night remain low. 48 Hours will have a similarly tough job winning viewers in its difficult Tuesday slot. CBS, in a tight race with ABC for second place in the prime-time ratings, will find it hard to stick with...