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Gala designer jumpsuits, selling for up to $1,000, bear as little relationship to Rosie's garb as the QE2 to a Liberty ship. They come strapless or backless or off-the-shoulder; camisoled, ruffled and high-necked, or deeply décolleté. At stores like I. Magnin's in San Francisco and Chicago and Bloomingdale's in New York, which has eight departments (including one named In Flight) selling jumpsuitery, they come in soft, billowy silks and satins, polished cotton and gabardine, velvet and crepe de Chine in art deco prints. Head-turning hues include...
Still, life aboard your own boat is not quite like first class on the QE2...
...liner's home port, which has long been a center of I.R.A. activity in Britain. Last week, following a police raid that netted the biggest haul of explosives since the terrorist campaign began in Britain, Scotland Yard authorities believed they were closer than ever to establishing the QE2 connection...
Sadat said that "one of the Arab leaders"-by general agreement among Middle East specialists that could be Sadat's acerbic critic, Muammar Gaddafi of Libya-"had the idea to torpedo the QE2. He tried to use one of my submarines and had issued the order already...
...chairs and bronze statuary. It has been replaced by the chrome and Naugahyde of modern design, ranging in taste from contemporary elegance to Las Vegas gaudy. "Restaurants" have replaced dining rooms, and even that venerable man for all needs, the purser, has been redesignated the "hotel manager." Though the QE2 will maintain two classes (first and "standard") on her transatlantic runs, she will cruise the Caribbean as a classless society nine months of the year...