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...running 10% ahead of last year, with designer jeans up more than 30%. Compared with the old, proletarian Levi's, which retail for around $20, the designer models are more form-fitting and have fancier stitching and other touches. Until last spring, the market was dominated by Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren and other names synonymous with class and cash. But Jordache? The name (pronounced Jor-dash) is a loose acronym for three immigrant Israeli brothers, Joseph, Ralph and Avi Nakash, who have taken a faddish product and promoted it overnight into a multimillion-dollar business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Topless Jeans Make the Scene | 9/10/1979 | See Source »

Critics such as Vanderbilt's Dr. George Mann point out that most cholesterol in the blood does not come from foods directly but is produced by the body Diets and drugs can lower cholesterol levels no more than 40%-not enough, they claim, to affect the rate of heart disease heart attacks. Some doubt that cholesterol is the main culprit, regardless of its origins. Lately they have been pon dering alternate theories, among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diet Debate | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Mathematically, at least, the chances of producing such a champion seem much reduced: only 1,665 foals were registered when Sir Barton won; 8,434 when Citation won in 1948; last year the number was 31,326. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, member of one of America's most distinguished racing families, pondered the problem last week and concluded, "I can't think of any logical reason for more Triple Crown horses lately. And if we do get a third in a row this year, I think it's mostly chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Riddle of the Triple Crown | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...Woman to Woman, Vanderbilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Apr. 2, 1979 | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

...BEEN MORE THAN 130 years since Cornelius Vanderbilt purchased exclusive right of way across the narrow strip of land that separates Atlantic and Pacific in Nicaragua. It has been 46 years since General Anastasio Somoza Garcia took control of the Nicaraguan National Guard from the United States Marines and promptly ordered the murder of nationalist hero Augusto Sandino. And it has been several months now since the front pages of America's newspapers sported gory tales of the thousands of civilian deaths that the same National Guard caused in the wake of the massive but unsuccessful popular uprising that racked...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Nicaragua: La Lucha Continua | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

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