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Cupcakes in Hot Pink. For all their financial pinch, the carriers are still revving up frills and frippery to woo customers. Pacific Airlines not long ago put its stewardesses in "hot pink" uniforms and advertised them delectably as "cupcakes." Staid Northwest Airlines added a mink collar to its stewardess attire last month-and lifted hemlines just above the knee. To whip up interest in its South American routes, Braniff has just introduced such gourmet dishes as Cebiche Peruano de Pescado (raw fish steeped in lemon juice) and Arroz con Pato Chifa (marinated duckling in soy sauce with date, rice...
...Democratic Senator Ernest Rollings meanwhile got 68 Senate cosponsors for a bill that would reduce imports of textiles from 2.7 billion sq. yds. a year to 1.7 billion sq. yds. In all, the seven bills would lower imports on a range of products including beef, mutton, veal, mink skins, zinc, footwear, oil, watches and dairy products. Even liberal Senators, under badgering from home, seemed sympathetic. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire sided with the dairy interests. Both Kennedys agreed to sponsor quota measures opposed to the spirit of the Kennedy Round, which was named after their older brother...
...there she was on the runway-two endless legs stretching up toward an encompassing smile, as Margie Lindsay, 14, daughter of New York's photogenic mayor, made her modeling debut at a press preview of Maximilian's new collection. Margie modeled coats of calf, lamb and otter ("Mink is for 20-year-olds," said the furrier) to fond applause before being hustled back to school. "She wanted to do it," said her mother. "I told her she'd have to ask her father. He's such a stage buff; of course he said...
...mugged girl turns out to be a bugged housewife (Anne Jackson) with even more identity crises than he. She is surrounded by mink coats, but only wants a sheepskin to prove that she has a mind. He is merely a hero-worshiping intellectual-his walls are covered with pictures of Napoleon, Schweitzer and Einstein-who wants to be a womanizing tiger...
...dice; another recalls how he absconded with the money for his father's funeral and blew it on the ponies. "You act just like a kid," explains Sidney L. of Washington. "You go along thinking when you hit it big you'll get the wife a mink coat, then a trip to Bermuda. Then when you do, how much of it does she see? Five dollars. You never get the car fixed or buy new tires. No odds in that. It's dead. It has no life...