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...problems that plague Detroit (pop. 1.4 million) differ only in magnitude from those that afflict other large cities in the U.S.: an eroding tax base as affluent whites abandon the core city; reduced services, including police protection; widespread unemployment, particularly among black youths; neighborhoods where housing and other buildings have been allowed to deteriorate; and low-quality schools. Perhaps more debilitating than any of these is a growing feeling that nothing will-or can-be done to reverse the trend...
...which is already selling by the thousands in Dutch bookstores at $5.60 a copy, the prince admitted that his friendship with top Lockheed officials had developed "along wrong lines." Said he: "I sincerely regret this." In addition to giving up his post as Inspector General, he may have to abandon some 300 other official roles, which range from chairman of the World Wildlife Fund to adviser for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. In a televised speech to a tense and packed meeting of Parliament, Prime Minister Joop den Uyl said that no legal action would be taken against Prince Bernhard because...
...nuclear proliferation. Despite American criticism concerning the lack of adequate safeguards, Bonn is going ahead with its plans to sell nuclear technology to Brazil. Bonn understands Washington's fear that nuclear by-products could be used to fabricate nuclear weapons, but it also sees no reason why it should abandon such a lucrative field to American competition...
...deliberate assertion, a statement. It says, in the words of a Washington fashion setter who was in Paris last week, "Aren't I simply devastatingly dazzling!" It is not, at from $2,000 to $10,000 per outfit, for humble folks. Saint Laurent has used with theatrical abandon the old luxurious, tactile fabrics: satin, gold and silver lame, silk faille, velvet, taffeta, chiffon, chenille, mousseline and moire. The materials, fashioned into 106 outfits for Saint Laurent's July 28 showing, bring back blouses with billowing sleeves, bouffant skirts and, yes, soft petticoats, with tight, wasp waistlines defined...
Though he vows never to abandon haute couture, he finds his challenges today chiefly in the dog-eat-dog arena of ready-to-wear. His men's clothes, which he designs himself, bring in more income-$45 million in U.S. sales alone -than his women's fashions. "I have more to defend in ready-to-wear," he says. "There is more competition there. I am more stimulated." He takes pride in the fact that each of the 58 products that bear his name, from sunglasses to soap and soon to cigarette lighters, has received his own scrutiny...