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...also a great time for the popular sport of bargain hunting, even when some bargains turn out to be extravagantly expensive. Says Frank Drewitt, managing director of Harrods of London: "An American couple flew in on the Concorde one evening, bought some fine luggage and a fur coat the next day, and flew back home on the Concorde that evening...
...year, 6% of all they spent in Britain. The department store advertised its post-Christmas sale in the New York Times, and one Wisconsin woman stood outside all night before the sale began so that she could lead the stampede into the fur department, where a $69,000 sable coat went...
...have many Americans coming in here now, and they are buying some of our best furs," says Claire de Montesquiou of Revillon, where a trench-style coat in black mink sells for $7,600, in contrast to $10,200 at the Revillon salon in Saks Fifth Avenue. The most expensive fur coats in France are the rare Russian lynx. Revillon sold one this winter for $303,000, but thinks it indiscreet to say who bought it. Eat your heart out, Lorelei...
...Commander in Chief. It was his war, just like all those bills up on the Hill were his bills. He tried to run the war like he ran Congress, with bluster and threat one minute, humility and doubt the next. He had the documents in his inner coat pocket, votes on his legislation, the latest body count from Viet...
Ronald Reagan came into office fervently embracing the notion that Uncle Sam should take off his coat and tie, roll up his sleeves and actively oppose Soviet henchmen in the back alleys of the world. Reagan's motivation was quite explicitly connected with Viet Nam. He felt it was high time to demonstrate that the U.S. had recovered from the paralysis and pessimism caused by the trauma of the only war it ever lost...