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...June 30). At the Paris showings, the new look was an old one-the Empire style, first devised by the ancient Greeks and popularized in the 19th century by the Empress Josephine, wife of Napoleon. Its chief characteristics: a bosomy neckline, a high waist pulled in just below the bust, a flowing, bell-like skirt...
WHILE statesmen and strongmen cope with readily visible political crises, the economic tides that lift or swamp them often begin their flow unnoticed. Across the Atlantic, the European boom that refused to bust during the U.S.'s recession months is now threatened by a downturn. Across the Pacific, Red China, out to dominate Asia politically and economically, has declared open economic war on Japan, perfecting an art in which the Japanese themselves once excelled: dumping cheap goods onto Southeast Asian markets. The deep-running courses of these economic tides are analyzed in FOREIGN NEWS: Threat of Recession and Squeeze...
...businessmen congratulated themselves on how sturdily their economies were weathering the sharpest U.S. recession since World War II. Now there are signs that Europeans themselves have something to be concerned about. By last week talk of a downturn in European business, hushed when Europe's boom refused to bust even during the U.S.'s greyest months, broke out in loud tones. In Rome, officials of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization warned that the price bottom might drop out of Europe's agricultural market this fall, and in London Britain's cautious Chancellor...
Since that incident there has been no cool between Police Commissioner Kennedy and the New York City Youth Board. Says one board official bitterly: "All Kennedy wants is to swing the big stick, arrest more kids, get more cops, bust up gangs. Where's his respect for the human being?" Contends another critic, Columbia University's New York School of Social Work Professor Alfred J. Kahn: "The conduct he encourages in his officers in effect challenges the objectives of our statutes and substitutes his personal philosophy for that...
...fall, buyers turned to the "relaxed look," a slimmer, trimmer, tighter version of the chemise. One fast comer is the empire style-a bust-emphasizing high waist with a flaring skirt. Fall dresses will be two or three inches shorter than last fall's models, and colors will be gayer and splashier...