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...this, the new Ms. has taken the earliest opportunity to blast the advertisers that had long boycotted its pages. Founding editor Gloria Steinem writes that Revlon decided not to advertise with Ms. in 1980 because a cover photo portrayed Soviet feminists without makeup. Not only that, says Steinem, Estee Lauder largely ignored Ms. because the magazine failed to mesh with Lauder's efforts to peddle a "kept-woman mentality." Ms. also presents an apologetic portfolio of ads it did run -- and wishes it hadn...
Revlon, Avon, Estee Lauder and Benneton haveswitched to these alternative methods in the faceof animal-rights protests...
...Canadian consortium formed to invest in Eastern Europe purchased half the General Banking & Trust Co. of Budapest, the city's oldest bank, for $10 million. American cosmetics heir Ronald S. Lauder is the chairman of the group, the Central Europe Development Corp...
...selling point of skin-care products is to protect against sun, wind and weather. Now trend-alert cosmetic companies hope to wage a profitable war against an additional foe: pollution. Chanel touts the ability of its new Prevention Serum (price: $50 for 1.35 oz.) to counteract "environmental impurities." Estee Lauder's Skin Defender lotion ($45 for 0.9 oz.) promises to shield against the "onslaught of irritants from pollution." The treatments typically contain sunscreen plus ingredients designed to neutralize so-called free radicals, the highly reactive molecules found in some air pollutants...
...speculate that if Bloch turned to the Soviets in < Vienna, it may have been out of frustration. A competent diplomat, but a dour, moody man, Bloch was deeply offended at having to serve under two inexperienced political appointees. He dismissed former Ambassador Helene von Damm as a "nut" and Lauder as a "total disaster." After returning to the U.S. in 1987, Bloch openly complained about not getting an ambassadorial post. If, however, he was recruited long ago in Berlin, the frustration theory might not hold...