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...which cost $2,000 and up -mean anything to ordinary clothes buyers? Certainly not to the faded-denim and corduroy set; and very little to devotees of sportswear, still the most popular look by far among U.S. women. The couturiers almost self-consciously shied away from anything resembling sportif, the lines that in the past have been most successfully "knocked off' by ready-to-wear imitators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Retro Look | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

Still, while it lasts the French have a few good laughs on the Americans as they sit around the tennis club in Vientiane, which is to Saigon's Cercle Sportif as the IAB must be to New York's Racquet Club. The club is integrated; after a few gins-and-tonics the Laotians and the French get to laughing together, and to toasting "permanent friendship between our two nations...

Author: By Julia T. Reed, | Title: Keeping Colonial Laos Profitable | 2/17/1971 | See Source »

...much we can learn from you, save for what we call modern development," says one intellectual. "We tend to equate you with machines for whom there is no deep thinking." Says another: "Americans have no culture, unless you call beer and big bosoms culture." At Saigon's Cercle Sportif and around upper-middle-class dining tables, a frequent topic of conversation is "la gaucherie americaine"-which may include anything from the way G.I.s gun their big trucks through Saigon's streets to the contention that one U.S. embassy official speaks to President Thieu as though he were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOUTH VIET NAM: RISING RESENTMENT OF THE U.S. | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...pride of the old capital, has reopened, although still in temporary quarters. A professor says sadly: "We have more than 3,000 students again. But we are not yet a university. We lack books, facilities and teachers-most of all we lack spirit." At the once gracious Cercle Sportif, ducks waddle across the abandoned, waterlogged tennis courts, and club members sip their aperitifs against a curtain of bullet-pocked walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOUTH VIET NAM: HUE REVISITED | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

Even as Frankel's story appeared, people began assailing its verisimilitude. White House Press Secretary George E. Reedy swore that the President "has received no such communication." In Saigon, Ambassador Lodge swam ten laps at the Cercle Sportif pool before facing inquisitive newsmen. "I'm supposed to be sick, am I?" he grinned and, with that, disavowed the story of his resignation. "There's no truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: What Publication Does | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

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