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...Throw Them Out." CBS Chairman William S. Paley had not even gaveled his overflow audience to order in Manhattan before a woman stockholder in red-feathered hat and raffish earrings got up to make a loud complaint: she had, she said, been issued a subpoena to keep quiet at the meeting. (Subpoenas are not issued for such purposes, and CBS said it had sought no order against her.) When he could finally get a word in, Paley proceeded to the meeting's business, which included the abrupt firing two months ago of CBS-TV President James T. Aubrey...
...present company's 55 dancers are competent, and some are first-rate. Lupe Serrano was a dazzling, feather-light prima ballerina in the "Black Swan" pas de deux, Sallie Wilson was a dreamy and hungry psyche trapped in Sargasso's sea of weeds, Toni Lander's split leaps in Etudes were electric, and Veronika Mlakar in Giselle made a Queen of the Willis of intense malevolence. Royes Fernandez is the company's able, and sometimes distinguished premier danseur, and young Bruce Marks has the extra ebullience that sets off a star from the corps...
Whatever happened to Barbra Streisand, 22, the girl in the feather boa, the late suffragette dress, and whatever else was handy to "match"? For one thing, she's making about $5,000 a week in Funny Girl, which is enough to enrich anyone's tastes. Then CBS decided to show her all dressed up in its TV musical My Name Is Barbra late in April and marched her off to Manhattan's Bergdorf-Goodman for fitting and filming. She tried on a $15,000 Somali leopard coat-and liked it! Next came a mink-lined velvet robe...
...outfitted ladies showed a tendency to linger near the pictures that best harmonized with their clothes. Collector Barbara Jakobson flitted among the black and white opticals, seeming to appear and disappear in a skin-tight jump suit with ostrich-feather cuffs under a "cage" of black chiffon, latticed with black velvet. Another black and white effect, frequently mistaken for a painting when it was standing still, was the calfskin coat by Furrier Jacques Kaplan, stenciled by Op Painter Richard Anuszkiewicz in a dotty pattern that focused disturbingly on Mrs. Lee Lombard's pretty kidneys...
Even government officials admit that industrial inefficiency, combined with high wages and labor feather-bedding, has driven costs of production up, pricing British goods out to foreign markets. As inflation at home makes British products less competitive abroad, receipts from exports keep falling behind spending on imports. Gold moves from the vaults of London to the capitals of Europe. And as those vaults are drained, world confidence in the pound declines. The exchange rate drops. And the crisis continues...