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...standard-size fashions without major alterations. For them, spandex means clothes that will give a little here or there and keep them out of the hands of the little old lady who lets out seams and fixes the collar lines. Even high-style couturiers, who have a tendency to sniff at anything not imported from foreign showrooms, showed high-style appreciation. Some-like Oleg Cassini and Hannah Troy-went so far as to rush right in with some select stretch dresses with give where it counts...
...certainly be temporary drops in the Dow-Jones average this year as the market pauses every once in a while to catch its breath. But with the U.S. economy looking stronger than ever and the stock market so free of speculative excesses, only a few cold-nosed bears still sniff a sharp price break in 1964. Most Wall Streeters rub their hands with glee when they behold the market still so full of untapped values, of stocks selling at only 14 or 15 times the company's earnings. The most common prediction on the Street: the Dow-Jones will...
...Labor Statistics has assigned different values to the food, housing, transportation and service sections of the index to get a more accurate reading of monthly price movements. Food is expected to be less important than in the existing index, and housing and transportation relatively more so. With the first sniff of inflation in the air, a key question is whether the new index, with its heavier emphasis on services, will rise faster than the old one, which has crept up 1.2% annually since...
Actually there is no black magic to the classic French diplomacy so artfully practiced by De Gaulle and his Foreign Minister. Some acid critics sniff that it is simply a matter of submerging broken promises in a torrent of new ones. In fact, it is founded on the time-tested belief that "the ironclad rule of states is to give nothing for nothing." The French have never confused diplomacy with a popularity contest, and this is a point the U.S. has been achingly slow to learn. While the U.S. is busy building up "reservoirs of good will" around the world...
...Julian Koenig, 42, president of Manhattan's four-year-old Papert, Koenig, Lois, Inc. A horse player who claims to make money at it, Koenig chooses his ads, and the people to create them, with much the same educated intuition he uses to pick the ponies: "You look, sniff and close your eyes." His shop is approaching $30 million in annual billing, having just landed the Piel's Beer account and much of the Quaker Oats and U.S. Rubber business-a rare hat trick on Madison Avenue. Koenig still writes some drug and whisky ads himself and checks...