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...record leans toward the Italian style. Renata Tebaldi, Robert Merrill, Marilyn Home and Carlo Bergonzi are all equipped with voluptuous voices singing this perennial "singers' opera," complete with massive arias and roof-hitting dramatics. Tebaldi, the star of them all, has compensated for the loss of the famous velvet in her voice by inserting pulsating hysteria. Sometimes the effect works, sometimes not. Conductor Lamberto Gardelli makes a valiant effort to keep everybody's bombastics under control...
...Tonight Show Host Johnny Carson marched on-camera sporting American Designer Oleg Cassini's version of the Mao in dark blue whipcord. At a recent party given for Manhattan Pop Artist James Rosenquist, Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Hoving arrived wearing one by Cardin in black velvet-and looked positively clerical alongside Hostess Ethel Scull's daisy-topped maxiskirt. Still, when Bonwit's advertised Cardin's new $150 Nehru blazer, the Fifth Avenue store sold out its entire stock of 100 jackets the very first...
Mainly responsible for launching men into high fashion is Paris' Cardin, who set the styles for subtly belled trousers, zippered "cosmocorps" suits, Nehru coats and velvet dinner jackets. For Cardin, it has paid off handsomely: today his menswear outsells his women's clothes by 10 to 1, and his line is carried worldwide by stores from Tokyo to Moscow...
...called "sensory saturation with peak stimuli," the members picked the most congenial partner of the opposite sex by looking into one another's eyes to find the one whose gaze was most comfortable. Then, eyes closed, the partners touched, tasted and smelled pleasurable objects, such as roses and velvet. Next, they touched fingertips and gazed steadily into each other's eyes. They tried to recall whatever moment in life had given them utmost pleasure. After 20 minutes, all the participants sat in a circle and shared experiences, ridding themselves of some repressions and problems in the process...
...drive will sponsor a dance in the Union tomorrow night with the Velvet Underground. Tickets are $2 per person, and the proceeds go to the seven charities...