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...Gauche shops, started in 1966, that sell Saint Laurent's ready-to-wear line. There are only a few examples in the museum show; Vreeland insists that the pieces are hard to find because owners refuse to part with treasures like the YSL classic military overcoat for the nine-month duration of the exhibition, and, she notes, "I don't blame them." Rive Gauche wear is hardly cheap ($1,500 for a wool suit and a silk blouse), but it is durable, seldom extreme and has a shrewd gloss of couture luxury, mostly in the details...
...Raymond Donovan. Almost from the moment the former New Jersey construction executive arrived in Washington in 1981 for his confirmation hearings, he has been pressed to explain alleged links with the Mafia. Donovan has resolutely denied any dealings with organized crime. Last year a special federal prosecutor concluded a nine-month inquiry with the report that there was "insufficient credible evidence" to indict Donovan...
...would become President. The three cave dwellings above and the two cottages below made the ruling group; they met as neighbors, friends, brothers, as they planned the revolution to come. The lesser two were persecuted to death; the reigning three were all to die of natural causes in a nine-month period of 1976, at least two of them knowing their revolution had misfired, and the largest of them all, Mao, insane...
...claim of sovereignty over Hong Kong before talks could proceed. After that breakdown, the colony's economic indicators plummeted to historic lows. The news that Britain and China would resume their talks has produced a recovery. By last week shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange reached a nine-month high, and the slumping Hong Kong dollar had improved. Even so, many of the ethnic Chinese businessmen who dominate the colony's economy were still debating whether to invest in new undertakings or apply for mortgages...
...After a nine-month fight to put the ailing city-operated Neville Manor Nursing Home back on its feet, things finally seem to be looking...