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Relax all over, put on a deadpan face, then you swing your hips and start twitching. Sounds like the twist? Wrong, man. That's the blues, a new British dance craze that comes complete with an added fillip. In one step, hands are clasped behind the back, and the dancer bends slightly forward. The brief lean is called the Philip, since it springs from the Duke of Edinburgh's inevitable hands -clasped -to -the - rear, trunk -inclined stance two steps behind the Queen. Says one London blues-Philip adept: "You just stand there...
...pulling the levers of progress. In quick succession, it announced that its earnings climbed 15% to $76 million and sales rose to $2,098,000,000 for 1963's first half, proposed a 4-for-3 split of both the British and Dutch shares. As an added fillip, the Unilever directors promised to pay a 30? interim dividend on British shares and a 50? dividend on Dutch shares as soon as the shareholders approve the split. On the New York, London and Amsterdam stock exchanges, Unilever stocks soared...
...could have told Paris that other "In" notions for fall are: jerkins, jumpers and tunics; boots (chukka-short, mid-calf height or higher, mostly in fake fur and leather); tights and tight pants; turtlenecks (on practically anything except a turtle); schoolboy suits, tarns and caps; and, for a campus fillip, men's bow ties worn as hair bands...
...year study, the coupons will cost companies 1¼? for five (after a $9.500 initiation fee per product) and, unlike other trading plans, will be paid for only if redeemed for the traditional catalogue of goods that Gift Stars intends to offer as premiums. As an added fillip, the stamps will be coded for computers, which will be able to tell a manufacturer the buying habits of his customers down to marketing area, box sizes and flavors-with hopes that this might provide a guide to what the elusive U.S. housewife really wants...
...will introduce TV viewers to the nation's first official Christmas stamp. The stamp is meant not only to encourage all Americans to spend 4;? in postage for their avalanche of Christmas cards (rather than the still permissible 3? for unsealed envelopes), but also "to supply a colorful fillip" to the greeting business. As usual, the bureaucrats did not consider that good and original design-or even the tiniest hint that Christmas is, after all, Christ's birthday-might be a necessary ingredient, fillip-wise...