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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Predictably, all Gaul is divided on what tack to take with tourists. Small boutiques and big department stores such as Paris' Au Printemps are saying "no sale" to those who want on-the-spot discounts. On the other hand, Liz on the Rue de Rivoli, which counts on Americans for 90% of its business, will go on as before-though the firm is now providing airport-bound customers with buses staffed by hostesses who help with the confusion at customs. And at Dior last week, Director Jean-Marc Depoix comfortingly reassured his jet-set clientele that Dior...
...France and Belgium, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg has long been a hospitable tourist center of quiet pastoral charms. Recently the hospitality has been extended to a special group of visitors-executives of U.S. and European blue-chip companies who stay just long enough to enjoy a meal at Au Gourmet and to attend the annual meeting of their new holding companies. Domiciled for the record in a local bank or lawyer's office, such holding companies have hit the European money market for more than $500 million in long-term dollar loans in the past two years...
...first experimental Magic Mirror, backed by the French fashion magazine Elle, has just gone into operation at the Paris department store Au Printemps. A second will be used later this month on the liner La France for trans-atlantic haute couture showings-if a passenger's measurements are already on record in Paris, the dress she selects will be ready when she gets there. Price of the mirror and accompanying projection system...
...expects to receive an American patent this month, plans to market Magic Mirror in the U.S. soon afterward. For American teen-agers who shop with their mothers, the system will hold a surprise blessing. Said an appreciative young mademoiselle, after a painless session in front of the mirror at Au Printemps: "Now Mother can say no before I go to the trouble of trying on an outfit and falling completely in love with...
...main, the ties between the law schools and the other social sciences have remained fragmentary and at times even frivolous--mere snippets thrown into a collection of cases and materials to show that the professor is au courant...