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They looked like lotus blossoms in their pastel ao dai, sweeping by the aging buildings of Harvard Yard. The blossoms were 46 frail South Vietnamese businesswomen, aged 25 to 45, who last week, after a brief stopover in Washington, moved into a Radcliffe College dormitory and began attending the International Marketing Institute's classes held at Harvard Business School...
...Tour, though a native of Picardy, cannily proclaimed himself an English painter. Pastel portraiture was all the rage. Only seven years before, the Italian pastelist Rosalba Carriera had visited Paris and found duchesses and princesses imploring her to do their portraits. La Tour* prudently devoted himself entirely to pastels...
Electra Webb loved to talk in such proverbs, and the new memorial building at Shelburne faithfully reflects her homespun, silver-spoon style. The Rembrandts in the living room complement a Chippendale sofa covered in needlepoint, an English secretary and an English gaming table. Mary Cassatt's pastel of Electra's mother hangs in her bedroom. Desk and dresser tops are crowded with silver-framed photographs of her children and grandchildren-and a white satin pillow on the bed bears the red-embroidered maxim: "We live in deeds, not years...
...flagpole. They were responsible for the whimsical ads ("No matter what shape your stomach's in . . .") that boosted Alka-Seltzer sales by $13.3 million. When Braniff International President Harding Lawrence came to Tinker in 1965, Wells thought up the idea of painting Braniff's jets in pastel hues-and persuaded Lawrence to go along. Rich and Greene also had a hand in Braniff's "airstrip," which features stewardesses in quick-change Pucci-designed uniforms. Lawrence was delighted with the trio's part in his once stodgy airline's subsequent success. When Wells, Rich and Greene...
...years, edited by Peter Bird Martin and researched by Jean Bergerud, with the help of many TIME correspondents. The cover picture is the work of Photographer Robert S. Crandall, who assembled most of the currently available pills into a shape representing the scientific symbol for "female." If the pastel colors of the pills create a rather cheery, vernal effect, that is not inappropriate to the title of the cover story: "Freedom from Fear...