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...Other houses, to achieve the same de-emphasis, went even farther, bound up their mannequins. "The American woman won't wear it that way," snorted Richard Blauner of New York's Suzy Perette, "because the American woman has grown. You have to make a place for the bust, not squash it down...
...easily maneuverable Pipers served as reconnaissance, liaison and ambulance planes. They became known to G.I.s as "flying Jeeps" and to the Germans as "hell raisers" because bombing raids often followed their reconnaissance flights. Piper, like other small-plane makers, was shoved into the red after the war by the bust of the small-plane boom, but soon bounced back...
Exports are being helped by the elimination of barriers abroad against dollar imports. Equally important, businessmen can now expect long-term markets not tied to boom-or-bust fluctuations. In 1960 a large part of U.S. sales to Europe were in finished consumer goods-bought to satisfy the European's growing taste for a higher standard of living. "For the first time in decades," says Secretary of Commerce Frederick Mueller, "there is discretionary buying in Europe. Even if the industrial activity in Europe lessens slightly, it should not greatly affect our opportunities to sell there...
...Rogers in 1871 came a statue of Lincoln. In 1887 Alexander Milne Calder, grandfather of the mobilist, did an equestrian bronze of Philadelphia's Civil War hero, General George Meade. Frederic Remington produced a Cowboy; Daniel C. French did an idealized female Justice; Augustus Saint-Gaudens carved a bust of President Garfield. There was a mounted George Washington said to be the largest bronze...
There was, in fact, very little in the Kennedy message to make the crowds bust the barricades, to explain the ecstasy of teenagers or the wild urge of the throngs to touch him. The more he campaigned, the more he seemed endowed with the same charisma that won and held popularity for Dwight Eisenhower. In appearance he is a slender man with a boyish face, an uncontrollable shock of hair, a dazzling smile. In manner he is alert, incisive, speaking in short, terse sentences in a chowderish New England accent that he somehow makes attractive (even when he pronounces Cincinnati...