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...skirts, brighter colors all around. And for each new style, there is a new name: side-draped "toga coats" by Jacques Griffe; the slope-shouldered "Sling Drape" by Castillo of Lanvin; the gently indented Egg-Cup Silhouette" by Jacques Heim. Three of the most important "looks" (see cuts) : Pierre Cardin's tapered "Sickle Silhouette," Guy Laroche's bouncy "Flounce Look," Dior Designer Yves Saint-Laurent's loose and swinging "Trapeze Line...
DIOR'S SUCCESSOR may be brilliant French designer Pierre Cardin, 33, who helped late master create New Look before opening own fashion house. Others in the running: House of Dior Designers Yves Saint Laurent and Yorn Michaelsen, who worked closely with Dior. Company will probably coast along for a year on momentum and designs left by Dior, but test of its ability to continue Dior's flair will come in August with showing of big winter collection...
Everything seemed to be right. The riding had been Liberal for more than half a century. The party's candidate was Sorel's young (34), personable Gerard Cournoyer, law partner and political heir apparent of the late P. J. A. Cardin, who had not been beaten in 35 years. Furthermore, the opposition looked feeble. The Union des Electeurs had put up Roland Corbeil, a Social Crediter. The Progressive Conservative was Etienne Duhamel, who was a candidate only because of the new Progressive Conservative policy of entering a runner, no matter how lame, in every race...
Cournoyer started out well, campaigning like the old Cardin hand he was. Behind his well-heeled machine stood Sorel's potent Simard Brothers, Quebec's biggest industrialists, whose shipyard and two plants dominate the riding. Then, a week before the election, the Liberals got a shock: a spot survey showed a strong trend toward Social Crediter Corbeil...
...Conservatives (with only 67 seats in the House of Commons) were ready to take over the country tomorrow. But the Liberals' control of the House was now slim. In the 245-member House, there was one seat left vacant by the death of Richelieu-Vercheres' Pierre Cardin. There was one absentee (Communist M.P. Fred Rose, jailed in the spy trial). The Liberals claimed that they could count on 125 votes. But it was a hard political fact that the Liberals had a solid majority in the House only with the help of splinter groups...