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...friends, stage-managed a reorganization of the KANU party that abolished Odinga's job as deputy president and elected eight regional vice presidents in his place -all of them anti-Odinga. A small group of Odinga fanatics resigned to form their own opposition party, but it was a ges ture so hopeless that Odinga himself refused to join them...
...York radar engineer, goes to sleep at night with her transistor radio pulsating reassuringly beneath her pillow. Her dream is always the same: she becomes a dancer on TV's Hullabaloo and gaily frugs the night away. Karen, who wears red mesh tights and white Courrèges-style boots for real-life frugging, says that rock 'n' roll really gets through to her, especially those tear-drenched ballads about unrequited love. "I know what it's like to be blue," she sighs, "because that's how I feel when my boy friend talks...
...quickly caught up in the jet set, and, with a name like Ford, they naturally got a lot of publicity. Charlotte worked for a decorator, and both girls smiled radiantly from fashion magazines. They learned what there was to learn about pop paintings and camp culture, wore Courrèges suits and the latest "flip" hairdo. They were picked for the list of America's ten best-dressed women...
...synthetics; now it weaves acrylics and polyesters into everything from socks to sweaters, has transformed the brassiere and girdle business by introducing Du Font's stretchable Lycra fiber. The Swedes practically live in synthetic parkas and stretch pants during the winter. Such designers as Pucci and Courrèges make dramatic use of the new fibers in their creations...
Last spring Mondrian's chief descendant in threads was engineering-trained Courrèges. This fall it is St. Laurent, who got the idea from a book of paintings that his mother gave to him. Of course, a St. Laurent original of a copied Mondrian costs $800; the highest price that the artist ever got during his lifetime for one of his paintings...