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...openers, just after he got back to New York, he won worldwide attention when his report that Jackie and Rose Kennedy had spent $30,000 on a Paris shopping spree became an issue in the 1960 presidential campaign. (Jackie pouted: "I'm sure I spend less than Mrs. Nixon.") He mixed fashion scoops with big names: Princess Margaret's wedding dress, Lady Bird Johnson's Inaugural wardrobe, Happy Rockefeller's trousseau, Jackie's leopard coat (when she first emerged from mourning), Lynda Bird's wedding dress. Under Fairchild's prodding, WWD began building up jet-setters like Gloria Guinness, Isabel...
...public. On Wall Street, as elsewhere in American life, self-criticism is in style these days, and no institution is any longer considered sacred. The stock market's critics are speaking up against mismanagement in brokerage houses, politicking in stock exchanges and the practices that led to the speculative spree of the mid-1960s ?and the hard fall that followed. This new group differs considerably from the men who rose to power in the market in earlier times. Today's leaders are fairly young?many are in their 30s and 40s ?as well as politically iconoclastic and socially...
...country's boom has passed. Television sales were off one-third in the first quarter of 1970, but that might have been because the market was nearly saturated, with 250,000 sets in Israeli homes. Auto sales are currently down one-third, but there was a buying spree late last year in anticipation of new taxes. Higher income taxes and increased compulsory savings have reduced buying power by more than one-quarter this year and have caused some grumbling, but most Israelis grudgingly acknowledge the need for sizable taxes if the nation is to buy weapons...
...golden age of tourism and business travel has drawn the world's innkeepers into a building spree. Led by aggressive U.S. chains, hotel expansion is honing competition in dozens of countries, and the travel boom is transforming entire economies. The construction splurge is aimed not only at American travelers, who are booking foreign tours in rising numbers despite the domestic economic slowdown, but also at travel-hungry Asians and Europeans...
...almost incredibly naive band of self-styled narodniki. There had been a four-month spree of bombings in commercial and federal buildings and other public places in Manhattan. The explosions caused 19 minor injuries...