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...Cutter Offended...
Yachtsmen who have sailed aboard Rupert C. Thompson's 40-ft. cutter Dorinda know that, come what may, Thompson is as placid as pool water at the helm. While his tense crew struggled to run down a damaged sail and hoist a new one in the midst of a hot race last year, Thompson looked on with barely a word, leaving his men to perform their work unbothered. That is just the kind of ship that "Rupe" Thompson, 59, runs as chairman of Textron Inc., New England's second largest firm and certainly one of the nation...
...women agree. "Any girl with a good figure will have a man around to protect her," sniffs a Johannesburg model. Other women protest that a bra holster makes them appear top-heavy on the portside. To which Britain's staid Tailor & Cutter added archly: "A couple of hand grenades would seem more esthetic." Joubert and Taylor are unworried. They have nothing to fear but the topless dress...
...spiraling in a kind of controlled chaos. I compose in motion. I wish to create tension and conflict." Nor, after the first shock has passed, are his models bereft of their own kind of grandeur. Decay, once faced, gradually loses its morbid horror. Albright seems more the dedicated diamond cutter who positions his gem, then splits it into perfect fragments of glitter and decay. Albright's real goal is thus to make the viewer feel the precise sense of death implicit in life, and that split second when both are terribly real...
...been shown to restore fertility in a man who had lost it because of an operation for pituitary cancer. But there is some danger that the injections may promote the growth of ovarian cysts, and have other harmful side effects. Nobody is preparing the pituitary extract for general use. Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley, Calif., has sole rights to make and market Pergonal in the U.S., but it will take the FDA months or years to decide whether the drug should be cleared for general use. Meanwhile, the fertility research centers are booked solid for all available supplies, and they cannot...