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...Jackie, resplendent in her white and black silk satin dress and upswept French twist hairdo. In fact, the President told an aide, he wouldn't mind such a week 52 times a year...
...some churches offer ten classes of funerals, it does not end a moment before. About $10 will send the French workingman to his maker in a dignified but austere manner; a minimum of $1,500 gives eminent members of the bourgeoisie a church bedecked inside and out with black silk draperies embossed with the initials of the deceased, plus a chorus of 30 voices accompanied by harps, trumpets, violins and cellos, and an elaborately carved casket resting on an ornate catafalque built especially for the occasion...
...measures worked. Although imports stayed at high levels, exports rose so much that the trade balance is back in the black this year. Stepped up U.S. buying of textiles, raw silk, steel, turbines and transistor TV sets cut Japan's trade deficit with the U.S. in the first nine months of 1962 by 50%; in September, for the first time in history, Japan actually sold more goods in the U.S. than it bought there...
With the holiday season here, Cambridge shops are full of ideas for Christmas gift-giving. Adele Bragar thinks her Scotch mohair scarf, in either a solid color or plaid, makes an exciting present. She is featuring Siamese silk and Kashmiri silk scarves, too, as well as imported jewelry from Mexico, India, and Spain with many, many items under $5. You can pick up your fake Persian lamb hat which is being seen all over this season for only $4 at Adele Bragar...
That brings me, unfortunately, to the great problem of Sunday night's performance. Tacko Tsukamoto is the prettiest Butterfly I have ever seen: she is slim, graceful, and really looks "just fifteen." All this is infinitely preferable to Renata Tebaldi lumbering about the stage in yards of flowered silk, but vocally, Miss Tsukamoto provided only the barest outlines of any kind of Butterfly at all. Her pleasant voice was often completely inaudible in low-lying or pianissimo passages, and only occasionally did she summon anything like the power necessary for Butterfly's big moments. A soprano who can sing...