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People seem to be buying mostly practical items this year. "Wool socks are a gifty item" at the Cambridge Army and Navy Store, and Hit or Miss is selling a lot of shetland sweaters and velvet. Furniture stores also claim to be doing well. "I don't understand it, I figured it would be terrible," Phillip L. Dicarlo, the manager of Putnam Furniture, said yesterday...
...elusive lovers, a bevy of reporters and paparazzi besieged the rusticating royals at the private 20,000-acre estate 100 miles north of London, "hanging about the stables, photographing anything that moves," according to the Queen's press secretary. At one point, the reporters threatened to upset a Shetland pony carrying the Queen's three-year-old grandson Peter. These breaches of protocol produced some rare cracks in Her Majesty's regal facade. "I wish you would go away," she snapped at swarming newshounds. Prince Charles, too, had some unusually sharp words when he addressed a group...
...companies are exploring Egypt's western desert, on the assumption that the oil does not stop at the Libyan border, as well as in the Sinai and the Gulf of Suez. Drilling is also continuing in Europe's North Sea, around Norway and Britain. West of the Shetland Islands, off Scotland, the state-owned British National Oil Corp. is test drilling in 4,500 ft. of water, the second greatest depth ever...
...with the baggy jeans, the chinoiserie, the gypsy queen regalia. In with the snappy blue blazers and tweed hacking jackets, button-down Oxford-cloth shirts and Shetland sweaters, khaki slacks and tartan skirts. This summer and fall, the fashion-conscious woman will be wearing exactly what the fashion-unconscious woman has been wearing for decades. It is currently labeled the Preppie Look, though the style has also been known as Ivy League, Town and Country, Brooks Brothers or-in England -County. Mother would approve...
...hard judge. In 1964, for instance, it was not Senator Barry Goldwater's warlike remarks about Cuba that cooked his goose in New Hampshire. It was his existential dismay one night in Littleton, as he was drawn through the town in a cart pulled by a Shetland pony. The Senator not only looked like a man imprudent enough to let himself be talked into sitting in a pony cart; he looked as if the pony were in control of the situation...