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...Williamsburg, Hasidic Jews lined the steets with their families. I hoped they were praying for me. One woman with a long skirt and a scarf over her head was passing out candy to the runners. "Have some candy for energy," she said...
...regiment's colonel in chief was rakishly turned out in a uniform of green overalls, helmet, goggles and Hermes scarf. Just the thing this year if you are Princess Anne spending the day in Warminster, Wiltshire, inspecting the latest weaponry of your Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters. The princess, who shares her family's zest for hunting, took a turn at the firing line to check out her troops' new assault rifle and scored an impressive nine out of ten points. Anne then clambered into a 24-ton armored personnel carrier, scoring five hits out of seven with its cannon...
...friend is flapping about in the enveloping intricacies of a new raincoat. "I made it like this," says the designer, improvising a fitting at the front desk. He unbuttons a half-cape that spans the sleeves and puts the loose ends around his friend's neck. "Like a scarf...
...same is true throughout Europe. A Hermes silk scarf is $70 in Paris, $100 in New York City; a bottle of Dom Perignon 1976 is $23 in Paris, $41 in New York. At the Giorgio Armani boutique on Milan's Via Sant' Andrea, a smartly cut black leather jacket is $600, half the price in New York. At Zeiss Optical in Munich, a pair of binoculars costs $815, vs. $1,140. Says Miami Travel Agency Owner Constanza DeFelice: "I even bought two Cabbage Patch dolls in a Madrid department store for less than $20 apiece." "Our tour conductors take people...
...takes quite a lot of savings on bargain-price champagne, of course, to pay for a ticket on the Concorde (one way New York to London: $2,466). And although the dollar is high, so are the prices of many goods and services aimed at Americans. The Hermes scarf that now costs "only" $70 in Paris was also about $70 three or four years ago, when the dollar was worth 5 francs instead of nearly 10. At $131, the cheapest room at the Plaza-Athenee is a soupcon higher than it was five years ago, although the rate for more...