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...years later Bjorn-Larsen was shocked when Munsingwear introduced the Stocking Locking Girdle, a tummy tamer strikingly similar to the one he had designed. Bjorn-Larsen protested to the company in vain for three years and finally, in 1972, took the case to court...
Roberta Maxwell's Mary is an acutely devastating portrait of a prima donna. She is vain, she is cruel, she throws temper tantrums, she is self-pitying, she is totally selfabsorbed. Unthroned, she is crowned in the dazzling radiance of her pride. Maxwell is in the top rank of U.S. actresses, and she proves it again in this kaleidoscopic performance...
...heyday the Barbizon was both legend and landmark. Innumerable were the tales of ardent swains who essayed in vain to penetrate the upper floors disguised as doctors or dads. Mae Sibley, a bright-eyed sprite who was the hotel's assistant manager and housemother to the girls, kept close tabs on their comings and goings. A girl needed three good references to be considered for admission, and then was graded by such criteria as family, looks, dress and demeanor...
...that was before Lady Diana Spencer came along and captured the tabloid's headlines-and reportedly Prince Charles' heart. In a vain attempt to catch sight of the elusive lovers, a bevy of reporters and paparazzi besieged the rusticating royals at the private 20,000-acre estate 100 miles north of London, "hanging about the stables, photographing anything that moves," according to the Queen's press secretary. At one point, the reporters threatened to upset a Shetland pony carrying the Queen's three-year-old grandson Peter. These breaches of protocol produced some rare cracks...
...specializing in service functions, which are increasingly dependent on better-educated employees. Thus a traditional means of upward mobility for the poor has been blocked. The report states that it is self-defeating to try to reindustrialize the central cities; too much federal aid is given in a vain effort to sustain them, and not enough is given directly to the poor. According to the report, the poor should be helped by a guaranteed minimum income, by job training and by assistance in migrating to areas where work is available. Instead of trying to bring jobs to people, the Government...