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After each chapter, the authors put together short "style quotient tests," so that "the reader can determine exactly how much style he or she has to begin with." These tests are supposed to amuse as well as instruct, but if this is supposed to be a Preppy Handbook rip-off, it falls far short of the light and self-mocking tone that makes the Handbook readable...
...appropriately attired women are dashing toward fitness as never before. As recently as 1967, though, an irate official tried to rip the cardboard number from the sweatshirt of a runner labeled K. SWITZER near the start of the Boston Marathon. He had discovered that the K stood for Kathrine. Kathy Switzer, then 20, managed to elude the man and went on to finish, the first woman with a number in the marathon's history to do so. Today there are 15 million women runners in America, and Switzer, 34, is the head of Avon Cosmetics' $5 million sports...
What right had I to rip away from Italy a work of art which had been created within the very bosom of the land? What act of piracy were we about to commit? Suddenly I was shaken. But not for very long. Collecting meant taking risks. Collecting meant possession. The pulpit up there is San Leonardo already ahd enough sculptures. A seventh would only cause administrative confusion. By the time I had reached the top of the stairs I had tucked my ridiculous anxieties into the recesses of my mind, never to surface again...
Thus went Operation Big Crunch, endorsed by none other than the august French jewelry firm of Cartier. The stunt was aimed at discouraging the lucrative rip-off of luxury goods through counterfeiting. The crushed timepieces, which will go on display in Cartier stores around the world, were phony renditions of the company's famous $650 Tank watch. They were nabbed en route from Zurich to Tijuana by alert U.S. Customs inspectors. Once in Mexico, the fakes could have been sold for $300 to $400 each...
...become supporters of the developers; if they do, the pressures on CCA candidates may become enormous. The demands of tenant activists will have to be compromised with the demands of the moderate elite for a "reasoned approach" a la Abt. The pulling from both sides could, in future years, rip candidates like Francis H. Duehay '55 and David Wylie right in half...