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...which retail for around $20, the designer models are more form-fitting and have fancier stitching and other touches. Until last spring, the market was dominated by Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and other names synonymous with class and cash. But Jordache? The name (pronounced Jor-dash) is a loose acronym for three immigrant Israeli brothers, Joseph, Ralph and Avi Nakash, who have taken a faddish product and promoted it overnight into a multimillion-dollar business...
...present policy of détente has also impelled many scholars to take a fresh look at the cold war, that byproduct of World War II. Many of the origins of the cold war sprang from decisions made during hostilities. The Allied decision to halt Patton on his dash toward Berlin, for example, isolated the German capital and made it a focal point of confrontation in the postwar era. Says History Professor Robert Dallek of U.C.L.A.: "We have to go back. Where we are now is a direct result of what evolved during that time." To his own surprise, Dallek...
...that scene, and particularly that whoomp-in NBC's upcoming made-for-TV movie High Ice-took six weeks and more real-life dash and daring than will likely be visible on the 19-in. screen...
...gracious, unassuming Willingboro, N.J., athlete won a gold medal for his leg in the 800-meter relay and a bronze in his specialty, the long jump. Lewis was disappointed with third place in the long jump, but Stan Vinson, 27, who won gold medals in the 400-meter dash and 1,600-meter relay, looked ahead: "I think he'll jump 29 ft. before he's 20 the way he's going." Bob Beamon's 1968 world record...
...nations, not all entered their top competitors. The U.S., for instance, sent only 109 athletes, of whom only eight are top-ranked in their event. Still, the U.S. broke into the winner's circle when Karen Hawkins, 22, of St. Louis took a silver in the 200-meter dash. Then the U.S. collected four gold medals in Spartakiad's first five days: Wardell Gilbreath, 25, of Amarillo, Texas, in the 200-meter dash; John Powell, 32, of Cupertino, Calif., in the discus; Henry Marsh, 25, of Eugene, Ore., in the 3,000-meter steeplechase; and Vinson...