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...constant companions. By 1967 she had stopped carrying the cameras and began appearing in front of them. She had in fact become a sensational model?and promptly attracted the attention of a movie agent who had seen her TV commercials for Chanel No. 5 Bath Oil. Ali turned him off???fast. She had met a slew of movie people on location: "I categorically decided I didn't want to be involved in the racket...
...midi. Not since Christian Dior's 1947 New Look has a descending hemline raised such a furor. Men denounce the midi as a threat to the golden days of mini ogling; women insist that it will make them look old, or ugly, or dumpy, or sawed-off???or all of these; and the fashion industry has been deeply split by its advent...
...When Vladimir was enrolled in a liberal school expressly chosen by his father, he resented a master's suggestion that the Nabokov coachman deposit him several blocks away so he could arrive at class democratically afoot. A more galling comment, though, came from teachers who accused him of "showing off???mainly for "peppering my Russian papers with English and French terms which came naturally...
Born Oct. 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, where his father, David Eisenhower, was a railroad-yard mechanic, Dwight was brought to Abilene at the age of two. The family was never well off???David Eisenhower rarely earned more than $100 a month?and the six boys worked hard to help out. Dwight sold vegetables grown on his family's three acres and stoked furnaces at the Belle Springs Creamery, where, at 19, he became night foreman...
...hodgepodge acquisitions. They are often put together in a seemingly haphazard tangle, with only finances for a common bond. In the modern conglomerate, oil and water do mix. So do steel and airlines, theaters and tobacco, chemicals and clothes, meat-packing and insurance. Such unlikely combinations have repeatedly paid off???at least...