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...Waddell Gallery, Fifth Avenue's puckish furrier, Jacques Kaplan, is parading an entire "art" show done in fur. Zebra skins are expanded into compositions of svelte veldt op. Big Brother Is Watching You (price $950) is the name of a jaguar hide with two peering glass eyes. One eye winks...
...jumble of fresh pizza, sesame seed rolls, zeppelin shaped loaves. Fruit and vegetables come live and kicking from baskets and boxes. You want meat? Then go next door to the butcher. There's sure to be one. Outside his store freshly slaughtered lambs and rabbits (still with head and fur) hang from red hooks, and well preserved pig heads leer through the front window. Inside Al or Louie or Joe is cutting government choice to your order...
...good one -- it just seemed to work. As you walked through the crowd, everybody had his own particular bag. There was George dribbling through his clarinet; next to him Sam had set up an altar and was burning incense; Judy was wearing her basset hound for a fur piece while her playmate jumped rope with a Slinky...
...Winnie's granddaughter as photographers began shooting the view from the stern. Later, things got even worse when the prankish Duke of Bedford, the show's announcer, peeled off the detachable lower swath of a mink coat Arabella was modeling, leaving her in a sort of mini-fur. "I do not want to be a model!" she cried, bursting into tears. But by afternoon she had calmed down, and swept through the opening show with no tears. She even endured the duke's suave commentary on the fur. "There's nothing like a fur miniskirt," intoned...
Chase Manhattan implied might be a pretty sound idea. Two days later, President Rudolph A. Peterson of California's Bank of America went even fur ther. In a talk to the New York Chamber of Commerce, he argued that "as a last resort" the U.S. should refuse to sell gold if the gold drain becomes "intolerable." He added that "there is no overwhelming reason why we should sustain the dollar value of gold. We may have to reconsider our gold-buying policy...