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...laboratory that looks like a bathroom choked with chemistry sets, the bureau puts 7,500 products per year (including all of Macy's own brands) through tests of fire, water, high pressure and simulated wear. Recently the testers ordered Macy's advertising department not to call a raincoat "water-resistant" because it failed to withstand a heavy shower for 21 minutes, and not to call a plastic Christmas tree "fireproof," because it melted when exposed to flame...
...Celestino Marchillo resumes a boyhood pastime-the Spanish custom of car fighting. He takes his stand in the middle of 'he Boulevard Saint-Martin in Paris and shakes his raincoat at the traffic. He is knocked down. "I could have presented the capote when the head passed, as others do, but I wanted to do it honestly, because the bull was honest," Celestino explains...
...flapping over tattered Levi's), the Blue-Blooded Aristocrat (cashmere sweater, flannel skirt, and a single strand of perfect pearls), the Walleyed Scholar (sloped shoulders, sensible shoes, and a pleated skirt left over from ice-hockey days), and the flocks of Amenable Parrots (kneesocks, muffler, a Peck & Peck raincoat, and a penny for every loafer). In their place these days is a sleekly feathered creature who swings her hair when she walks, wears no makeup, likes to go shopping in a suit that really has pants, and is apt to go dancing in a dress that suggests...
With the children headed back to school, the fair becomes an adult festival. Fair buffs have learned to travel to Flushing Meadow in comfortable shoes and with a survival kit of essential items: sunglasses, sweater, tissues, folding raincoat -and folding money. For newcomers, the most essential items are forethought and a daily itinerary. Those who have time to explore it section by section will find the fair's 646 acres worth the effort. Some forethoughts...
...Grass. Teddy lay helplessly on the wet grass, beneath Mrs. Bayh's raincoat. The Bayhs staggered down the hill to a road, stopped a car driven by Robert Schauer, who had been attracted by the sound of the crash. He took them to his home, called the police, returned immediately with a pillow and blankets for Teddy. Said Schauer: "When I got to the plane, Senator Kennedy was still there. He was cool as a cucumber. He said he had shoulder and back injuries...