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Inevitably, the house of Dior will have to be sold to help Boussac pay off. That prospect pleases the Dior staff, which has seen the firm's profits sink year after year into the bottomless Boussac pit. Partly as a result, Dior has not had resources to invest in new products and outlets needed to keep from falling behind such dynamic competitors as Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Cardin...
...album which serves to unify it and give the tunes a certain topical freshness. Unfortunately, 'Imagination' is not as strong as the original. Jagger's voice is strained and impassioned, but the band sounds a bit clubfooted, especially during the bridge. The Stones slide part way into the pit that threatens a hard rock band adapting a soft number to its style and the song becomes merely filler when compared to the rest...
Last week's test run provided a preview of the casino's tasteful red, brown and orange decor. TIME Correspondent John Tompkins' assessment: "The equal of the most modern gaming rooms in Las Vegas, even if the croupiers, dealers and pit bosses are youthful amateurs who make up in friendliness what they lack in dexterity." Undoubtedly, the workers will acquire some of the hard professionalism of their Western counterparts when the real money starts flowing. Said one: "When the players start losing mortgage payments or food money, maybe "they'll start getting nasty." Since gamblers...
...Press, Wicker retraces the road from Aberdeen to Times Square, pausing for frequent pit stops: anecdota, place-dropping and sermonettes on how the press is not really biased, conspiratorial, overly negative or otherwise worthy of punishment. The preaching, like Wicker's daily columns, is honest, pertinent-and excruciatingly self-evident. After a long retelling of his experiences covering election campaigns, for instance, he concludes weakly that "in modern times, it seems to me, the so-called 'media'-television pre-eminent among them-provide the true arena of politics ... That is the fundamental reason for the decline...
...about the people behind the door, who are generals and admirals and Cabinet members, and about the object of the games they play, which generally have a lot to do with wiping out foreign civilizations. And then the realization hits you, like a hard icy lump in the pit of your stomach. The friendly folks who brought you Vietnam and Cambodia are back for more good times...