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Petit's extravaganza is a lush mixture of Now and Then. His dancers, tricked out in crushed-velvet pantsuits by Yves St. Laurent, open with the springy "L'Amour du Métier" (The Love of Show Business). As they sing, they flit in and out of a...
INDIA. In 1930, the subcontinent had an estimated 40,000 tigers-quite a few, considering India's centuries-old passion for blood sports. But now the worldwide demand for furs has done what sports alone could not. In 1970, India has only 2,500 tigers left. The country'...
Last week Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed two bills banning the sale of certain rare furs and hides in New York State. Manhattan Furrier Jacques Kaplan is keeping in step with public sentiment by showing mink furs treated to look like tiger and leopard skins in his fall collection. On the...
Ecologists are waging valuable campaigns across the nation against the fur coats popular so long as an expensive status symbol, especially those of the young sea otter, who is clubbed to death by entrepreneurs seeking to obtain their valuable white furs. Despite a public outery which forced Canada's Parliament...
The group also will ask store owners to sign a pledge that they will "no longer sell skins, hides, furs, or feathers of any animals, birds, or reptiles on the Federal Endangered Species list." This list is determined annually by the Secretary of the Interior.