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Egged on by Paris' Coco Chanel, who calls the miniskirt "the most absurd weapon woman has ever employed to seduce men," two of France's biggest ready-to-wear designers, Daniel Hechter and Jacques Delahaye, are now showing "maxi jupes" for autumn that reach all the way down to the midcalf. Hechter and Delahaye, who sell to leading department stores the world over, including Bonwit Teller and Neiman Marcus, are receiving orders for them by the thousands. In the U.S., three fast-rising young ready-to-wear designers-Coty Award Winner Dominic of Matty Talmack, plus Chester Weinberg...
...markets-the eleven-nation Latin American Free Trade Association and the five-nation Central American Common Market- will meet to discuss plans for merging the two zones into one economic com munity. Meanwhile, the Latins will talk among themselves about multilateral plans for better education, health and communications. By autumn, the first details of Latin America's new direction should begin to take shape...
...Washington last week, Government economists were as cheery as the cherry trees - and for much the same reason. Despite some sickly buds here and there, the economy seemed to be blossoming with the season. Warm weather had brought out the biggest show of shoppers in retail stores since last autumn. Retail business in March, reported the Commerce Department, was $26.47 billion, a 3% increase over February. After adjustments were made for this year's unusually early Easter, March figures were still 4% above retail spending a year...
...health, said Callaghan, is through increased productivity rather than lower taxes. "If you happen to be an unmarried woman novelist running a liquor store and supporting a widowed mother who does part-time work, with a passion for motorbikes and wanting to buy a house this autumn for ?5,500 then this is your budget," sniffed the Daily Express...
...autumn the BGMA officers found an organization that seemed to combine just what they required--professional bargainers, trade identity preservation, and AFL-CIO affiliation. This organization, ponderously named the Boston Crafts Maintenance Council, had an extra bonus since it would permit the old BGMA members to preserve some of their former autonomy...