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Great Bodies. In spite of a record cold spell, Manhattan stores and boutiques can barely match supply to demand. Designers like Halston, Adolfo, Sant Angelo and Betsey Johnson are grinding them out for customers from Jackie Onassis, who stocked up on Halston's shorties for yacht wear, to career girls like Celanese Fabric Coordinator Jacquie Nelson, whose bosses last week granted her permission to wear her knit shorts to work. Bloomingdale's department store ran a hot-pants advertisement this month, only to discover that the resulting zoom in sales was partly due to a cross-town rush...
...ignored by WWD, you're in trouble," says Designer Anne Klein. Her collections get coverage, but she complains that WWD favors male designers, such as Oscar de La Renta, Adolfo, Bill Blass (though he was snubbed for a time), Geoffrey Beene and Yves St. Laurent. Adds Miss Klein: "If St. Laurent showed barrels with two holes cut out, I guarantee that Women's Wear would brand it the coming look. It would also note that the stays were made of teak, the nails were of the purest brass and the holes were structurally...
Back in the Dominican Republic, hardly anyone ever thought that Ricardo Adolfo Jacabo Carty would even make it to the majors. "They put me in left field when I was a kid," he recalls, "and the ball went over my head. They put me to catch, and the ball went behind me." One thing Rico could always do, though, was "heet the ball." That is what impressed major league scouts when, at 18, Carty came to the U.S. to play in the Pan American Games. Unable to speak a word of English, he was quick to give his autograph...
...Adolfo Siles, who became President after Barrientos was killed in a helicopter crash, wanted to allow Arguedas to go into exile, but the military vetoed the idea. The generals' most bizarre but compelling argument was that Arguedas had possession of Guevara's severed hands. Che's hands had been preserved in formaldehyde and examined in La Paz by fingerprint experts. Nobody is sure what became of them after that. Even if they have not been destroyed, the hands could serve no further legal purpose-but they might have an enduring sentimental or superstitious value. The generals were...
Fashion designers sensed the approaching boom, and got a head start. By the end of 1968, ready-to-wear stretch wigs by Adolfo and Halston were available for $30, and just this month Vidal Sassoon put his own brand on the counters. In only a year, the leading firm in the field, Abbott Tresses, increased its stretch-wig sales from $200,000 to $10 million and stands every chance of more than doubling the amount by the end of 1970. Says Max Moskowitz, head of sales, "It's like a fairy tale." To assure a happy ending, Mr. Moskowitz...