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...other neighborhoods merchandising other letters like ABC, NBC and CBS. For the first time, all three networks have appointed vice presidents of children's programming. NBC cuts into Saturday morning programming with one-minute Pop Ups, spots designed to teach the use of letters. CBS has three-minute mini-documentaries called In The Know, featuring Josie and the Pussycats. ABC has announced a 1971 series, Curiosity Shop, produced by Cartoonist Chuck Jones (Roadrunner, Bugs Bunny...
...with its shiny new glass-and-steel buildings and wide sidewalks, exudes freshness and openness. The women of the major cities are completely attuned to Western fashion; Warsaw's Moda Polska fashion house sends its designers to Paris and London showings. Despite the advent of the midi, the mini is still in vogue. Even Warsaw policewomen wear minis, serving as reminders that the Polish leg can be as well turned as any in Europe. Student cabarets, such as Cracow's Piwnica Pod Baranami stage political satires lampooning government bureaucracy and inefficiency...
...driveway at 12 m.p.h., leans, sticks out a foot expertly to whip his bike around and roars back to his starting point. "I'm too good at this," he says. "You should see me go over a jump. I can do wheelies too." Derek started out on a mini-minibike called the Indian, but quickly became bored. For one thing, it could not go fast enough. For another, it had training wheels...
Perhaps nothing is such big medicine in the fashion world as a picture of Jacqueline Onassis leaving a Manhattan restaurant in a new outfit. The mini was really in when she was photographed emerging from Lafayette one winter day in 1966 with her hemline inches above her knees. Last week it was La Cote Basque and inches above her ankles. Plus fa change...
Volkswagen is retaliating by stepping up its h.p. from 57 to 60 and producing two versions of its famed bug. Both will have essentially the same design as the model of 1970 or, for that matter, 1949. A new standard "mini-bug" will be stripped of some chrome and door pockets, but will be equipped with, among other improvements, an automatic switch that will cut off the headlights when the ignition is turned off. It will list for $1,780 on the East and Gulf coasts, compared with $1,839 for the '70 beetle...