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...Mini-Empire. A former economist at the American Stock Exchange, Kaplan has built a mini-empire based on the exchange of ideas. In 1967 he thought that the influential men who run investing institutions-mutual funds, pension funds, trusts-should have a magazine written specifically for them. With modest bankrolling from Gerald Bronfman (of the liquor family), relatives and friends, he launched The Institutional Investor. "The Double Eye," as I.I.. is dubbed, is now an ad-packed monthly that is sent free to 20,000 portfolio managers and big brokers. The magazine quickly became the foundation for a company...
...baby was Prince Nicholaos, four months, youngest child of Greece's exiled King Constantine and Queen Anne-Marie. The christening in Rome's tiny Greek Orthodox Church, described by the King as a "mini-royal affair," was attended by a small clutch of relatives including Queen Mother Frederika and Anne-Marie's parents, King Frederik and Queen Ingrid of Denmark. Like any little commoner, the prince squalled lustily but settled down when the King pinned the gold and diamond Order of the Savior to his christening gown. "Then I take it away until...
Emanuel Ungaro remembered the mini fondly in a series of short, pleated skirts but covered most with midi-length coats, while Jacques Esterel's "he and she" collection featured tunics all round, ankle length and so narrowly cut as to be equally hobbling for either sex. Courrèges lowered his sights with a floor-length black vinyl apron atop flaming red briefs. (It is not the most practical outfit, but that did not seem to matter when Raquel Welch modeled it.) Mostly, Courrèges fell back on the old jumpsuits, made of vinyl and stickier than ever...
...sure who was winning: so as not to offend either team, he showed see-through, midi-length chiffon evening dresses with minislips worn underneath. But it was Pierre Cardin who saved the day for leg fetishists with a series of long skirts that are almost as revealing as the mini, and even more alluring. The Cardin trick: a slit that runs from ankle to thigh, occurs either at the sides or at the back and front, and flashes skin in and out of view as the wearer moves, affording viewers the best peep show in town...
...terminal, the scene is a recurrent attraction: a bald and stubby executive clad in a redlined cape and a Pierre Cardin jacket buttoned to the chin clambers from a custom-built black Lincoln Continental. With him comes an eyebrow-raising entourage: one male aide and four mini-skirted lasses of Playboy pulchritude. The normally expressionless Swiss faces at the ticket counter light up with half-amused, half-respectful recognition. "It's Bernie," whispers a Swissair hostess to a new colleague. Taking at least two of his curvaceous companions with him, Bernie quickly boards his private Myst...