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...deadlock was immediately obvious when the 13 ministers sat down Sunday evening in a private hotel dining salon for a secret preconference dinner. While the delegates ate lobster mousse and lamb noisettes, Yamani bluntly laid out the Saudi terms. The stonewalling response by cartel hard-liners led Conference Chairman Subroto of Indonesia to confess later that little remained except to "get through two days of meetings...
...have kept a close eye on the sale of high-technology goods to Communist nations through an obscure NATO affiliate, the Coordinating Committee on Export Controls. Known as CoCom, the agency is run by a small staff out of a Paris office that is inconspicuously wedged between a hair salon and a bank. Though CoCom has no official power to ban sales, its recommendations are generally followed. After the invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. stepped up pressure on its allies and CoCom to halt technology exports to the Soviet Union. But while the U.S. Government has stopped trade by some...
...debut might not have been so smashing an event without a young husband-and-wife fashion design team who have established a veddy select salon in Mayfair. David Emanuel, 28, and Elizabeth, 27, have made clothes for Lady Diana before and will make her wedding gown. They, and she, both obviously like the young, with-it look that she projects. Says David Emanuel: "Lady Diana is fantastic looking and will look magnificent in a wedding dress. She is young, fresh and lovely, and the dress should emphasize all that. We want to make her look like a fairy princess...
...layered cut, brushed off the face and neater but more stylized than the shag that was popularized by Jane Fonda in the early 1970s, it looks basically like a soft wedge graduated to the nape of the neck. Her hairdresser, Kevin Shanley, 25, who works in a South Kensington salon prophetically named Headlines Hair and Beauty Salon, confirms rumors that her locks are touched up with "a little blond highlighting" (or Di-lighting). Hairdressers throughout Britain are being besieged by young women who, as they say, demand a Di job. American hairdressers say they have not had a great many...
...paint and broken crockery), are immensely fashionable with collectors for reasons the work does not make clear. But nobody, not even the most dedicated footslogger on the SoHo treadmill, could have known everything in these three shows firsthand. Taken together, they make one realize yet again how indispensable the salon format is to a healthy art world. The curated survey, whose American prototype is the Whitney Biennial, always has patches of boredom and baldness, but it is still the nearest thing we have to the clamorous variety of the 19th century salon...