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Though Inventor Clive Sinclair, 37, is hoping to drum up demand for his set throughout Europe, he is particularly interested in the rich American market, where he has limited sales to such pricy outlets as Manhattan-based Bloomingdales, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus and Southern California's Bullocks. Even so, he insists the set "is not a toy. Its uses are endless-at sporting events, on a boat, commuting by train, for automobile passengers...
Jewett's is not the only theory, however. Brain Marcus, director of student affairs at Brandeis, said last week, "Kids knew much earlier than in the past what the Ivies were going to do, but I'm not sure that's the main factor, because when I take a look at some of the over-enrolled schools, they just don't compete with Harvard." Marcus said that at Brandeis the enrollment level is not unexpectedly high, but there are more students seeking on-campus housing than in the past...
...Marcus speculated that many schools may have admitted too many applicants. He said that some overenrolled schools may have been "playing it very safe to make sure they fill their classes and they have been playing it too safe...
From Bendel's and Bergdorfs in Manhattan to Saks Fifth Avenue in Chicago to Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, leggy accessories are already a runaway business. How hot they will be when it gets cold is anyone's guess...
Offstage his deferential manner toward adults, his shy country-boy come-on to women, made him seem, whatever heights of fame he achieved, strictly and forever down home. He defined himself, as Critic Greil Marcus points out in an excellent Presley essay, "by presenting his authentic multiplicity. I am, he announced, a house rocker, a boy steeped in mother-love, a true son of the church, a matinee idol who's only kidding, a man with too many rough edges for anyone ever to smooth away. Something in me yearns for a settling of affairs, he said with...