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Nanorchestes antarcticus, a species of pink mite discovered recently near the South Pole, needs no fur at all to keep warm. But Manhattan's Mary Sanford, wife of Socialite Stephen ("Laddie") Sanford, winters at Palm Beach, and Florida this year has been chilly enough to turn even the minks pink. "Your jacket seems to have picked up a glow from your ruby necklace," Laddie remarked brightly to his wife at Palm Beach's Poinciana Playhouse, whereupon he learned that his wife's genuinely rosy wrap was the harbinger of a new fad for pink mink. The skins...
Parkas for women will be longer this year, the local shops report. New synthetics will provide even more warmth than usual, and many manufacturers are presenting fur-linings for hoods...
...charity drives and highway safety. Meanwhile, 007 himself, Cinemactor Sean Connery, 34, was raising funds for a newspaper charity by attending the London première of The Yellow RollsRoyce, sporting a beard grown on vacation and his wife, Cinemactress Diane Cilento, 31, who was sporting a white fur coat...
...Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, a government and party blat in Soviet Central Asia, vented its spleen on factories that produced fur hats too inferior to capture customers. One plant was fined $12,000 when it was discovered that only half its output of fur hats and other clothing had been inspected, and of that percentage fully one in five garments proved defective...
Kenya's witch doctors are an impressive lot. Clad in ostrich plumes, tarbooshes, beaded caps, seashell belts and fur aprons, they emit noises even stranger than their appearance as they stalk along with pebble-filled antelope horns, porcupine quills and fly whisks. Their satchels of leopard or monkey skin bulge with the tools of their trade: magical elixirs (miti-shambd), dead and living animals, hammers, chisels and dung. They represent the only form of medical attention paid to nearly 80% of Kenya's 8,000,000 Africans and Asians, despite a government program that has spent...