Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...directly across Paris' elegant Faubourg St. Honore from his grownup salon. There, potential clients can rattle around in toy racing cars or tumble with giant Teddy bears, while mothers hit the racks with new enthusiasm. Now a jersey dress is a mere $36, a tweed suit about $40. Best news of all: children who do not live in Paris, and hardly ever make it over for the collections, can get the same bargains at any of Cardin's 200 outlets around the world...
Their mothers may be only a Givenchy away from the best-dressed list, their fathers bespoke down to their brogues. But for children until recently, haute couture loomed as far in the distance as puberty. Then Paris discovered the minimarket...
...Business is harder to come by," says Saul Zeidman, vice president of Allied Stores. Accordingly, many merchants and manufacturers are revising their advertising to emphasize sound value and cost-savings. For example, Coca-Cola is promoting its 16-oz.-bottle package as the "best buy per ounce" in soft drinks, and Westinghouse Electric stresses "the most refrigerator for your money...
...founded her own publishing house, Harvill Press, after World War II, then dedicated the rest of her life to introducing the works (many of which she translated herself) of contemporary Russian authors. She published the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sinyavsky (Abram Tertz) and Evgeny Evtushenko, but was best known for collaborating with Max Hayward on the translation of Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago...
...obvious plonker," confesses the hero of All Neat in Black Stockings. "You know, someone who shares his crumpet with his mates." Indeed, Ginger (Victor Henry) and his best mate Dwyer (Jack Shepherd) have a smooth little system for sharing the wealth. They bring the birds back to their adjoining digs, dim the lights, then trade rooms and partners. It's not as cushy as the setup in Two Gentlemen Sharing, but it gets the job done. At least, until Ginger meets Jill, "the special one" (Susan George). "It's been over three weeks and she's still...