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...Prince of Wales is no Bonny Prince Charlie, clothes-wise at least, according to Fashion Consultant Karl Dallas of Britain's influential Tailor & Cutter. Prince Charles, writes Dallas in the current issue, "follows the cult of shabbiness." For instance: the prince has taken to the fashionably wider tie without realizing that it is out of proportion to the narrow lapels and boxy shape of his '50s-style jacket. "As for his trousers, at the bottom they are the slim shape that every young man was demanding a decade ago, but at the top theyare as baggy...
...studying other people's hits. He wrote his first song at 15. At 20, he went to work as a song plugger on Tin Pan Alley -then as now a mythical street on the tattered fringe of Broadway. Hired by Sunbeam Music, Diamond sometimes felt like a tailor, sitting in a tiny cubicle and fitting songs to the needs of assorted Grade B singers. "Gloria wants an up-tempo ballad like that Patti Page thing," the boss would say. "And while you're at it, throw in some bongos...
Diamond was a good musical tailor, but he managed to move up and out of the Alley in a hurry. Today, at 29, he is a smooth, inventive composer-performer with various talents that have enabled him not only to bridge the generation gap but to leap all the way from commercial pop to rock stardom. In the past three years, Diamond has turned out enough hit songs (among them: Kentucky Woman and Sweet Caroline) to keep the current champion, Burt Bacharach, watchful and busy. But where Bacharach plods as a performer, Diamond dances...
Serious scientific thinkers have long speculatedand, indeed, sometimes fearedthat man may eventually be able to tailor living organisms, including himself, to suit highly specific needs. Though such "genetic engineering" is still a distant goal, it seemed just a little closer last week. After a dazzling series of experiments, researchers at the State University of New York at Buffalo reported that they have succeeded many times in reassembling parts of three different amoebaemicroscopic, one-celled animalsinto one fully functioning new cell...
...matter of the Faculty Committee on Social Studies, I see a number of students who would like to enter that program but cannot because its size is restricted. A few of these may find in the Special Concentration option a way to hand-tailor a serious program, or they may discover in pursuit of such a program that one or another existing department can house them with reasonable resiliency. (Some students enter the Social Studies Program, as they enter Harvard College, because it has quality and distinction, whose educational goals are not in fact furthered by that particular choice...