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...major topic of Harvard cocktail party conversation--the smell of the Charles River--will be in jeopardy when a newly-announced sewage treatment plant on the Cambridge side of the Charles goes into operation...
Still, the major problem of overflow street wastes should be handled by the new plant and it should help eliminate the dominant manifestation of Charles pollution--the smell. The Charles strollers, lollers, and crews will be happy and the cocktail party goers will be out of luck...
...More important, as the American woman's tastes and interests have become increasingly varied and sophisticated, the $15 billion-a-year U.S. industry has learned how to create a distinctively "American look" not only for sportswear and daytime outfits-long American specialties -but in formal ball gowns and cocktail dresses as well (see color pages...
What keeps the singles at South Bay hopping is a rigorous round of athletic and social activities. Besides a weekly dance, cocktail party and dinner, there are three tennis courts, two swimming pools, an outdoor communal whirlpool bath, two sauna rooms, a billiards room, a party room, and almost nightly discussion groups earnestly debating Viet Nam, drug addiction and civil rights...
...lived-with his lovely young Chinese girl friend-in an elegant downtown villa. He showed up to slap backs and shake hands at every important social occasion, and his own glittering cocktail parties were the talk of Saigon-as was his official car, the only Government vehicle in Viet Nam with white sidewall tires. Always ready to help out with a favor, he made lots of friends-and some jealous enemies as well-for rare was the day that his picture or his name did not appear in the city's newspapers. And whenever Viet Cong terrorists bombed...