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Heads swiveled all across London one last week as Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe drove past. Not that his Jaguar XKE was anything special to sophisticated Londoners, but who was that sitting next to Scarfe? Ringo the Beatle? Everyone did a double take...
...alone, are the most aggressive joint-effort boosters. This year the Transall, a German-French military-cargo plane, is to go into service. The Breguet 1150 antisubmarine aircraft, produced by France, Germany, Belgium and Holland, is also being delivered. A FrancoBritish combine has announced plans to build a supersonic Jaguar fighter. And France and Britain are thinking of spending $2 billion for a twin-engined variable-geometry fighter to compete with...
...Waddell Gallery, Fifth Avenue's puckish furrier, Jacques Kaplan, is parading an entire "art" show done in fur. Zebra skins are expanded into compositions of svelte veldt op. Big Brother Is Watching You (price $950) is the name of a jaguar hide with two peering glass eyes. One eye winks...
...Party. After so many years with the Red Dragon, the changelings have become more chameleons than capitalists. Increasingly less important as managers, they remain, Richman says, valuable as "freaks put on display for the local population as well as for visiting foreigners." Wu still keeps his family, servants and Jaguar in East Shanghai, but quietly banks most of his income (at 3.3% interest) in a conscious effort at inconspicuous consumption. Japanese newsmen who visited Wu recently found him warily proclaiming that life under Mao is "far better than the old way," when "we used to dance madly, gamble and play...
...Paris bar called New Jimmy's, raced off in sports cars to St.-Tropez, nearly got killed in an auto accident, twice got married and divorced, made and spent a fortune. "Riches don't keep anyone from feeling unhappy," she said, "but I prefer crying in a Jaguar to crying...