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...women over the past few years have tangled their hair until it swelled out to blimp proportions or plastered it down on their skulls as if it were Saran Wrap. Now hair is headed in the only remaining direction: up, up, up. Last week Saks Fifth Avenue Hair Stylist Adrian, the personally trained protége of Saks's famed Antoine, offered the U.S. the look that topped this summer's Paris collections-swirling, soaring swatches of hair that take off into the sky like the aftermath of atomic attack. Unlike wigs, which cover the whole head...
...Italy has become firmly established as the fountainhead of European design. Britain's Clore, whose multitudinous holdings include a corner on 22% of the British shoe market, makes periodic Italian tours to keep up with the latest in footwear; British Motor Corp.'s Harriman turned to Italian Stylist Pinin Farina to design autos that would sell better on the Continent. Harriman has also tailored his autos to continental tastes in less visible ways, e.g., learning that Germans like slow-revving engines, he heightened the gear ratios on the cars that he sent to Germany. Result: though B.M.C. must...
...welfare: "It is clear that we have come a long way from the concept of protecting the unfortunate, and have moved close to the idea of a socialization of incomes." Stans is more analyst than stylist: "Let me particularize," he is fond of saying as he warms to an earnest exposition of the Communist economic threat. He exhibits a practiced columnar hand by asking himself a question and then answering it: "Can business discipline itself?" ("Yes"), or "Can we believe in statistics?" ("Sometimes"). Somehow the answers spin out to proper length...
Further down the ladder, things could also go either way. At two and three for Yale are the ace squash players. Ralph Howe and Bob Hetherington. Their season records show they're just as good at tennis. Howe meets Frank Ripley, the Crimson's stylist from Palm Springs who has been the team's most consistent winner this season. Vic Niederhoffer will try to outplay and "outpsych" Hetherington...
With the industry of a researcher and the dedication of a disciple, Turnbull has apparently sought out every friend and enemy Fitzgerald ever had. Turnbull is neither stylist nor phrasemaker, but his - zealous reportage has produced a portrait that makes vividly comprehensible both Fitzgerald's failure as a man and his success as a writer...