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...billboards, in magazines and on TV throughout West Germany, a stunning group of feline fräuleins are selling lots of clothing by wearing practically none. The models are part of a $6,000,000-a-year advertising campaign that has helped make Munich's Triumph International the largest manufacturer of foundation garments in Europe. Half of all the bras and girdles sold in West Germany are made by Triumph in its 65 domestic plants, and the company satisfies a growing export market from 15 factories abroad. It plans to invade the U.S. next January. Volume has nearly quadrupled...
...face of racking scandal, few heads of government could have shown more outward aplomb than Prime Minister Lester Pearson. His Justice Minister Guy Favreau got a severe dressing down from Chief Justice Frédéric Dorion for having fumbled a notorious-bribery case involving four highly placed Liberals and a Montreal racketeer. For that, Favreau resigned (TIME, July 9), but Pearson loyally pronounced his continuing faith in his talented protégé. Last week Pearson named Favreau president of the Privy Council. The job might have been a sinecure, but Pearson tacked on a key role...
...FRÉDÉRIQUE PARDO...
...plays with figurative analogies. And he broods over his titles as if they were poetic essays, giving to them all the multiple layers of meaning he intends his paintings to convey. Words, he believes, are important. Hundertwasser ("hundred waters" in German) should know. He was originally christened more prosaically Fríedrich Stowasser ("dammed-up water"). If nothing else, he has learned how to let loose...
...Harvard Fr. '15Andever 50 (low score wins...