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...anywhere," says Manhattan Designer Barbara Marsten. "But you have to come to us for something garish." So one does, judging by the brobdingnagian baubles designed by Marsten's firm, appropriately named Caveat Emptor. The latest in nouveau gauche is a collection of oversized diamonds, rubies, emeralds and other jumbo gems made of mug-proof cardboard. The paper jewels, actually collages made from color photographs of real gems, are meant to dangle from the neck on elasticized "platinum-colored" chains. On the back of each cutout is a wry put-on and putdown of the world's most illustrious...
Lockheed has partially made up for the potential loss of revenue from Canada by signing a $625 million contract for an air traffic control system for Saudi Arabia. It has also landed a Saudi order for three TriStar jumbo jets-the first of many orders that the company will need but that are not in sight, if it is to recoup the L-1011's huge development costs. Says Haack carefully: "I don't classify myself as being exuberant, but I'm beginning to get cautiously optimistic." On the confidence scale, this is surely a new note...
...carte blanche to ask questions. "I had forgotten how carefully scrubbed and polite cadets are," said Tompkins, an Army staff sergeant in the South Pacific in W.W. II. Concluded Flamini: "Some may find it hard to accept West Point's honor code as anything more than elitist mumbo jumbo -but there is something to the place." That "something" and the scandal's scope are the story: edited by Ronald Kriss, an ex-Army specialist third class; written by James Atwater, ex-Korean War lieutenant; and researched by Anne Hopkins, granddaughter of Admiral William S. Sims (Annapolis...
Nagging Concern. To survive, Lockheed needs to sell off marginal assets, like the Hollywood-Burbank Airport, and find more customers for its Tri-Star jumbo jet. Over the next ten years the company will write off as losses $500 million in TriStar development costs, and it needs more sales to cushion the blow. Defense business is encouraging: Lockheed should this year match the $2 billion in Government contracts that it booked in 1975. Modifications of the C-5 A and C-141 transports could lead over the next few years to an additional $1.5 billion in military orders...
Tufts pitcher Jeff Berkman limited the Crimson bats to just two hits, impressive considering Harvard's .293 team batting average. His wildness got him into trouble in the second and the third (when he walked three consecutive Harvard batters), but the Jumbo defense turned in clutch double plays to squash both Crimson rallies...