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...chandeliers and reclining chairs) and circumstances (perfumed air, Muzak, and a cast of supporting players that includes one girl who does nothing but help customers with their zippers). They are whirlwind travelers who can comb out 250 New York debutantes one day, rinse an Italian princess the next, and pin a pony tail on a marquesa in Spain before nightfall (Alexandre's itinerary took him around the world twice just in the month of October). Each is accompanied by a vast retinue of apprentice craftsmen and enough apparatus (hair dryers, electric curlers, rollers, sprays, creams, nets, wigs, wiglets, switches...
...South Side. The car didn't have any license plates, and it was cruising slowly through a high-theft district-which attracted the cops' attention. Cassius-Muhammed Ali thought it was a clear case of lèse majesté, pointing to his Black Muslim lapel pin and yelling: "You can't arrest me! I represent another government-the Negro government. I'm a $15 million-a-year man, and you're nothing but a policeman. Lay a hand on me and I'll slap a brutality charge on you." After a few more...
...would not have understood if he had. About all the Detroit car czar would have respected him for is the fact that he is one of the few men in the world who could not be accused of marrying Charlotte for her money. Niarchos' wealth is hard to pin down in numbers, but it is more than $200 million...
...author of this kind of book owes it to his reader to pin down his relationship to his material and also to show that the problem at hand is not a phony one. Although Keniston fails to do either of these things, parts of his book are phenomenally interesting, especially to a Harvard audience. Consequently David Riesman has once again invited Keniston to leave Yale (where he is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Medical School) for a day to give a lecture on his study in Riesman's course on American character and social structure...
Captain Tom Gilmore (137) led Harvard with a first-period pin and two strong decisions. In the quarter-finals, he defeated Jeff Harben of the Coast Guard...