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...enfants was Couturier Pierre Cardin, who presented a complete line of super-chic children's clothes two years ago. Cardin's collection was as high-priced as it was high fashion. A miniature version of the famous "cos-mocorps" jump suit cost $70, a boy's tweed suit $80. Orders did not exactly flood in. Taking second thought, Cardin began working closely with his manufacturers, finally succeeded in cutting his prices almost in half. By way of celebration, he opened a special children's boutique this month, directly across Paris' elegant Faubourg St. Honore from...
...rituals that are hardly of Harvard's doing must be mentioned. Around New England, sex is, as they say, pursued with a passion. Every weekend, Dartmouth boys, rubbers firmly in hand, hitch out of Hanover, while Yalies go off to visit their pill-swilling neighbors. Meanwhile, Wellesley girls, in tweed skirts and cloth coats, arrive in Harvard Square by the busload. Only Harvard men manage to sit relatively still. Of course, freshmen do tend to panic. For them, Radcliffe is out-at least until second semester, by which time most upperclassmen have warily dropped their all-too-serious Cliffies. Still...
...struggle for the public good is, after all, the sort of thing many of us absorbed in our high school civics or American government classes; the regulars' view of politics as primarily a struggle for public office, waged by almost any means necessary, smacks of the cartoons of Boss Tweed we viewed in those selfsame classes. And we feel comfortable with an ideal of a participatory political system which would have as one of its principal features the kind of endless discussions of political issues which students enjoy in their leisure moments...
...School, 20 students demonstrated outside the placement office while recruiters from a New York law firm talked with students inside. The demonstrators said the firm--Milban, Tweed, Hadley, and McCoy--helped oppress black people in South Africa by representing Chase Manhattan Bank, which has investments in South African industry...
...with his wife Isabel, is currently winding up a month-long European vacation. "Right from the start it made things easier?things like tipping on the ship coming over. It helped us fit in much quicker." On Fielding's recommendation, Mrs. Mills shopped at Liberty's for a tweed suit, at Marks & Spencer for sweaters and lingerie, at Harrods for a 220-volt adapter for their traveling steam iron?"He says you can get anything at Harrods." They ate dinner at the Elizabethan Room of the Gore Hotel ("The zaniest meal in London," promises Fielding, with "waitresses...