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...wild side. A few styles retain excess fullness, but most are slimmed down and even semi-fitted. The trend from small geometric and corny floral-like prints to bold architectonic designs is an improvement. Wrought iron and fossil prints as well as the large circle designs really grab you. Specific spring shapes are back fullness, semi-A (fitted to waist), real A, empire, and square bottom. You'll never see anything stranger than the new ankle-length Marimekkos ($48-60). Some look like hospital dresses; others look like you're wrapped in a fence...
...along federal highways, railroads and reservoirs. The decree was sheer demagoguery, since the government has long had legal power to take over these lands, but has always lacked the cash to compensate the owners. To the peasants, Tango's loudly touted decree is simply a hunting license to grab the land. The government-sponsored, Communist-bossed National Peasant Confederation has even assured Brazil's peasants that the land decree "is an instrument that the peasants...
Abramson's failure to score leaves the Crimson's point hopes squarely on the shoulders of sophomore star Bruce Fowler, whose breaststroke events are yet to come. Fowler could grab first place at the 100-yard distance, and could score at 200 Yards...
Russia is forever exhorting small, underdeveloped countries to rise up and seize foreign holdings on their territory -naturally referring only to properties of the "imperialist" West. Last week Moscow found itself on the receiving end of the confiscation kick, target of a brash grab by its defiant onetime Communist ally-tiny Albania...
Real-estate men themselves are beginning to grab the vintage houses. One such is John Fell Stevenson (Adlai's son). With his wife (the daughter of one of America's best-known modern architects, Nathaniel Owings) and son, he rented one of San Francisco's porched and turreted antiques, which was built in 1880 and more recently has been an old ladies' home...