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Biggest crowd catcher, next to the space capsules, is Hollywood, where maxi-size billboards show such favorites as Charlie Chaplin, Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe alongside such old studio props as the actual chariot used in the 1927 version of Ben Hur. The real hit is the show of short film clips from dozens of past alltime favorite movies. "We can't get the people watching the films off the platform," complained the Seven's Ivan Chermayeff. "They get tears in their eyes, who knows why? Maybe they remember when they first took their girl to the flicks...
Egged on by Paris' Coco Chanel, who calls the miniskirt "the most absurd weapon woman has ever employed to seduce men," two of France's biggest ready-to-wear designers, Daniel Hechter and Jacques Delahaye, are now showing "maxi jupes" for autumn that reach all the way down to the midcalf. Hechter and Delahaye, who sell to leading department stores the world over, including Bonwit Teller and Neiman Marcus, are receiving orders for them by the thousands. In the U.S., three fast-rising young ready-to-wear designers-Coty Award Winner Dominic of Matty Talmack, plus Chester Weinberg...
Plan for Victory. To both Lucas and Considine, MacArthur disclosed a plan for winning the Korean War-a plan that the "Anglo-Saxonphiles" stubbornly and successfully opposed. "I could have won the war in Korea in a maxi mum of ten days," he told Considine, "with considerably fewer casualties than were suffered during the so-called truce period, and it would have altered the course of history." The plan called for an air strike with "between 30 and 50" atomic bombs just north of the Yalu River (sec map). This would have wiped out the enemy's air capability...
...progressed beyond such generali ties as "the absorption of unemployment will take precedence over the rule of maxi mum profit." Pushed into a corner, F.L.N...
...longer an earnest Communist and now resigned to his punishment (maxi mum: life imprisonment at hard labor). Spy Enbom told the court: "At first I spied for ideological reasons, later only for the money." The wages of his sin were pitifully small. For ten years of espionage, the Russians had paid...