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...King Bhumibol paid a state visit to the Shah of Iran and Empress Farah Diba, Dior dispatched six of its staff members to study Sirikit's tastes in couture and see if they couldn't recommend a few designs that she might buy on a Paris spree later this spring. "I prefer Balmain because I happened to know him before I knew Dior," Sirikit kept insisting to friends. Evidently Dior will have to content itself with fashioning glad rags for Farah Diba, who spends a mere $80,000 per year on such vanities...
...chosen piece hardly looked funky at all. Says Voulkos, "It's pretty open. There's no literal connotation in it." It simply looked like a shiny bronze-and-aluminum convocation of happy-go-lucky boa constrictors, and could be Fernand Leger on a three-dimensional spree. After all, by Peter Selz's definition, a work of art designed on request for a city hall can't possibly be funky, since the public has neither rejected the artist nor ignored...
Nonetheless, Nicosia came back quickly to score and in the first minute of the final quarter Hutchinson and Cain threw in goals, cutting the margin to 10-6. But like a ninth-inning rally by the New York Mets, Harvard's stickmen's scoring spree fell short. The Crimson could only manage one more tally (by Kilkowski) before...
...seem quite a reach for the company that publishes the Los Angeles Times to acquire a Manhattan-based magazine. But for the past six years, the Times Mirror has gone on a shopping spree, snatching up publishing companies right and left. Today, the Times Mirror is one of the nation's largest publishers of paperback books; it also puts out Bibles and dictionaries, art and medical books, airline flight manuals, slide rules and even service-station road maps. It publishes the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun and Evening Telegram and, south of Los Angeles, the Orange Coast Daily Pilot. According...
Having launched 20 new cigarette brands since he became president of the American Tobacco Co. in 1963, Robert Barney Walker has become known some what extravagantly as "Brand-a-Month Barney." While American has been concentrating chiefly on smokes, the rest of the industry has been on a merger spree, picking up products ranging from Chun King (Reynolds) to Clark Gum (Philip Morris). Now American is beginning to catch up with the trend, which began with the health scares of the late 50s, to ward profitable acquisitions as a hedge against poor cigarette sales prospects. Last May, American took over...