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...main factor in the fur boom is the new vitality and versatility of the fur industry itself. Says Jess Chernak, executive vice president of the American Fur Industry, the furriers' Manhattan-based promotional organization: "We changed what had been a conservative custom trade into a high-volume industry geared to young people and fresh styling...
...When the Custom Tailors Guild of America presented its 29th annual "best-dressed men" list last week, the winners included sequin-studded Rock Star Elton John, football's O.J. Simpson and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who was cited for "his impeccable choice of garments and his manner of wearing them." President Ford had to settle for a quick cuff from the tailors. Said the guild: "He simply hasn...
...William Marmon were granted a rare interview with Syria's President Hafez Assad. Prager also talked to two of Assad's closest advisers: Major General Naji Jamil, head of the Syrian air force, and Major General Mustapha Tlas, the Defense Minister. Following an old Syrian gift-giving custom, Jamil presented Prager with a small air-force pin, smilingly suggesting that it might make it easier for Prager to be a military correspondent in Syria in the unhappy event of more fighting in the area. Was there a more ominous symbolism in the Defense Minister's gift...
Parents are back in style in three books of poems for the young. John Lawrence's Rabbit & Pork: Rhyming Talk (Crowell; $6.95) revives the old cockney custom of jingling euphemisms: "Johnny Homer" to mean corner. By means of fine-lined wood engravings, Lawrence invests each miniverse with whimsy and bite (from "Inky Smudge": Judge, to "Noah's Ark": Park); his pageant of animals educates almost as much as it amuses. Perhaps the most diverting beast of the season is the dragon of Magic in the Mist (Atheneum; $4.95). Margaret Mary Kimmel's happy reptile-illustrated by Trina...
...some ways, the committee report is a kind of self-portrait of baffled and frustrated investigators. As it says: "The picture that emerges from the evidence is not a clear one." Assassination plots could be disguised to ensure "plausible deniability" for those higher up. Said the committee: "The custom permitted the most sensitive matters to be presented to the highest levels of the Government with the least clarity." There was also the danger of "floating authorization." Thus Richard Helms, CIA director from 1966 to 1973, testified that as deputy director he had not informed incoming Director John McCone...