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...having women appear in pants suits has headwaiters across the country in a swither. Chicago's Maxim's and Manhattan's "21," for instance, maintain a rigid ban, while other top restaurants allow them, provided that the suits are sufficiently dressy. Beverly Hills Restaurateur Steven Crane (the SCAM, the Luau, plus a chain extending to seven other cities) recently called a summit meeting to set national policy. His guideline: if the whole party is sufficiently "cocktailly" or black tie, the pants suits get seated...
...Justice Department lawyers last week brought charges of a major price-fixing conspiracy in the nation's plumbing-fixture industry. Fifteen manufacturers, including the American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp., the Crane Co. of Manhattan, and the Kohler Co. of Kohler, Wis., plus the industry's Washington-based trade association and eight high-ranking company officers, were accused of collusion in criminal violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The charges involved sales and prices of most sinks, toilets, tubs and other bathroom equipment sold, primarily for home use, from the fall of 1960 through early this year...
...time of Viet Nam, the Red Guards, LSD and a bear market, it may come as some surprise to learn that somebody out there is worried about the whooping crane. Well, somebody has to worry. Nobody cared enough about the great auk and the passenger pigeon, and look what happened to them...
Faith McNulty argues that the whooping crane is well worth the concern. Despite the efforts of conservationists, the tallest (over 4 ft.) and by far the most impressive-looking North American bird is fluttering perilously toward extinction. At the last annual count, there were only 51 of the great birds left on earth (seven are in captivity). That they have survived at all, as Author McNulty shows in this splendidly indignant book, is probably due more to their tenacity than to much publicized efforts to save them. Now the Federal...
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has placed the whooping crane on its "Rare and Endangered" list and is studying ways of breeding it in captivity. Mrs. McNulty, a freelance writer and the widow of Novelist John McNulty (Third Avenue, New York), avoids polemics but not passion as she examines the history of human indifference and hostility that conspired for so long against the whooping crane. She adds suspense to the story, too, as she traces the efforts of conservationists to locate the big birds' nesting regions in the Canadian far north and provide them with wintering grounds...