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Among his harsh critics was Eugenia Sheppard. "What a relief," she confided to her New York Post readers, "to write at last that a fashion collection is frankly, definitely and completely hideous." Chimed in the Guardian's Alison Adburgham: "A tour de force of bad taste . . . nothing could exceed the horror of this exercise in kitsch." The Daily Telegraph: "Nauseating"; France-Soir: "A great farce"; Le Figaro: "Un long gag." Women's Wear Daily, once Yves's leading fan, called his work "poor" and urged him to "shake off the weirdo and kooky influences." Others blamed Good...
...soft economy. Nixon declared last week that by proposing spending almost up to that limit but not beyond it, he had designed a budget that is "expansionary but not inflationary." Economists widely accept the idea that deficit financing is not overly inflationary so long as Government outlays do not exceed prospective full-employment revenues...
...observed, the electrical field in his bathroom steadily built up in intensity. The effect was too small to present any danger, but that might not be so in the case of the million-cubic-foot tank of a supertanker. There, Pierce has calculated, the electrical charge could easily exceed 10,000 volts per meter after about 45 minutes of spraying...
...expelled the 25,000 descendants of Italian colonialists and confiscated all but two of the country's Roman Catholic churches. Putting the squeeze on the 36 foreign oil companies in Libya, Gaddafi has increased oil production taxes by $330 million a year; these revenues of $1.4 billion far exceed Libya's $480 million annual expenditures. Last month his government decreed the nationalization of all foreign banks in Libya and grabbed off 60% of the foreign-owned insurance companies...
...Mellon Foundation's total assets now exceed $600 million...