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...afterward. For American teen-agers who shop with their mothers, the system will hold a surprise blessing. Said an appreciative young mademoiselle, after a painless session in front of the mirror at Au Printemps: "Now Mother can say no before I go to the trouble of trying on an outfit and falling completely in love with...
...Britain's $3billion-a-year legalized bookmaking business. Founded at the turn of the century and long famed as the "bookmaker to the Establishment," the snobbish West End-based firm had all but faded away along with its blueblooded patrons when Stein's uncle bought the entire outfit in 1956 for a paltry $700,000. The son of a prosperous London horse-parlor and turf-news-service operator, Stein himself became Ladbroke's top man in 1958 at age 30. Last year he turned $1,700,000 profit from a total of $100 million in wagers...
...that it has. At Newport last week, there were no fewer than three potential challengers waiting at the dock: another Aussie syndicate, a British group, and a French outfit led by Baron Marcel Bich, a millionaire ballpoint-pen manufacturer. Bich already owns one 12-meter yacht, has shares in two others, including Intrepid's trial horse, Constellation, has a fourth on the drawing boards, and is reportedly dickering to buy Intrepid herself. If the baron was discouraged by the odds, he certainly did not show it. "We are ready to issue a challenge for 1970," he said, "as soon...
...solve the problem, the Army for the past nine months has been outfit ting all M-16s with a new buffer system that slows the rate of fire back to 650 to 850 bullets per minute, thereby reducing the propensity to jam. In closerange fighting, a jam can be fatal. Tests with the WC 846 ball propellant show that a buffer-equipped M-16 now jams approximately only once every 4,000 shots. According to the Army's criteria, one jam every 1,001 rounds is acceptable. To compensate for the debris left behind by the new powder...
...done market surveys that covered up to 3,000 people. In Hungary, the National Market Research Institute keeps 3,000 to 3,500 households under continuous study, in an effort to find out their tastes in articles ranging from coffee percolators to children's wear. A Bulgarian outfit is conducting research on a sample of 4,000 families. "The Bulgarian consumer is now being X-rayed to guide production of cars, TV sets and refrigerators," announced Simeon Panev, a 29-year-old analyst from Sofia...