Word: jaguar
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...lovely girl who has always attracted numerous boys, but her wardrobe would not fill a hatbox. She wears almost no jewelry, but she has one material bauble. When a Jaguar auto salesman looked down his nose at the scruffily dressed customer as she peered at a bucket-seat XKE sports model, she sat down, wrote a giant check, and bought it on the spot. Wildly, she dashes across the desert in her Jaguar, as unsecured as a grain of flying sand. "I have no real roots," she says. "Sometimes, when I walk through a suburb with all its tidy houses...
Derek Wraxton, a $28-a-week War Office clerk, was one of the most elusive spies in the annals of British intelligence. Though he lived stylishly at the Dorchester Hotel, bought a Rolls-Royce, a Jaguar and a string of race horses, it was not until he spent a two-month leave in Moscow that Colonel Barmitage, lean, monocled chief of intelligence, made the astute decision to have him shadowed. Even then, 28 fulltime shadows and twelve auxiliaries dogged his footsteps for a year before Wraxton was caught red-handed with 185 secrets, a ham roll and the Defense Minister...
Horace likes to tool his air-conditioned Jaguar through refugee villages, passing out money and practicing his broken Chinese. Since 1951, the Kadoories have disbursed almost $3,000,000 in noninterest loans and gifts for refugee aid, roads, bridges and canals in villages hard against Red China. Their work with refugees-for which the brothers won Southeast Asia's prestigious 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service-is considered enlightened self-interest by the Kadoories, on the ground that business in Hong Kong prospers only if the colony is well fed and politically stable. The brothers have also taken...
Some of the chic clique are turning to other furs, running the range from badger to beaver, squirrel to seal, and including such far-out furs as pony, jaguar and zebra; best-dressed Mrs. William Paley passed up racks of floor-length mink coats last week to buy a simple little number in grey squirrel. Currently, the move is to sable. But if it is to be mink, then it must be cut rakishly enough or designed with sufficient casualness to insure its owner protection against being lumped with the common crowd at her heels. Get the "understated mink." cries...
...best sets is the British-made Scalextric, which costs $49.95 for more than nine feet of track, two variable-speed controllers and two sturdy cars (Grand Prix racers). Strombecker markets models of famous racecourses, has a $29.95 model including a D-Jaguar, a Ferrari Testa Rosa, and a Chicane obstacle strip that permits only one car to pass without risk of a crackup. The A. C. Gilbert Co. sells a figure eight of track with an overpass and two Corvettes for $29.98. Aurora's latest accessories include a lap counter, judge's stand and turnoff, starting gate, grandstand...