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...also a great time for the popular sport of bargain hunting, even when some bargains turn out to be extravagantly expensive. Says Frank Drewitt, managing director of Harrods of London: "An American couple flew in on the Concorde one evening, bought some fine luggage and a fur coat the next day, and flew back home on the Concorde that evening...
...estimated $60 million from American tourists last year, 6% of all they spent in Britain. The department store advertised its post-Christmas sale in the New York Times, and one Wisconsin woman stood outside all night before the sale began so that she could lead the stampede into the fur department, where a $69,000 sable coat went...
...have many Americans coming in here now, and they are buying some of our best furs," says Claire de Montesquiou of Revillon, where a trench-style coat in black mink sells for $7,600, in contrast to $10,200 at the Revillon salon in Saks Fifth Avenue. The most expensive fur coats in France are the rare Russian lynx. Revillon sold one this winter for $303,000, but thinks it indiscreet to say who bought it. Eat your heart out, Lorelei...
...those who already have fur coats, there are interesting bargains in deluxe cars. Dr. Barry Henderson, an Atlanta physician, has a Jaguar XJ6 on his shopping list, a burgundy-colored four-door sedan. "You can get a Jaguar in the mid-20s," he says, "and they're at least $35,000 in the U.S. You have to have it modified for EPA regulations, but the savings outweigh the modification costs...
...every working day, single lines about Gorbachev grew to paragraphs, and head shots became full- length photographs of a well-tailored, energetic man. Reagan took notice, knowing that Konstantin Chernenko would be dead sooner than later. Gorbachev's good-humored outing in Britain last December with his fur-clad, stylish wife provided plenty of new material. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stored up a lot of impressions from her 3 1/2 hours of meetings with Gorbachev, and she carried them all across the Atlantic with her a month ago and constructed for Reagan the first flesh-and-blood portrait...