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...biggest news in umbrellas since Mary Poppins sailed away with hers is the bubble-top. Made of transparent vinyl that bottles the wearer in his own waterproof demi-jar, the new models have taken the country by storm; and for storms, there is nothing like them. The body may not be fully sheltered, but head and shoulders stay totally dry. People can see where they are going, or who is coming at them. Women can make it home from the beauty parlor without losing their curls to the wind and damp. Only drawbacks: sharing is impossible (not enough room...
...campers, yachtsmen, private-airplane pilots and snowmobilers, a company named Relevant Products Inc. of Louisville has come up with the Safe-T-Cell, a compact 2-lb. super-first-aid kit. Crammed into a sturdy polyethylene cylinder are tourniquets, bandages, antiseptics, adhesive tape, aspirin, rescue blanket, waterproof matches, nylon cord, a compass and even chocolate. Marine, aircraft and camper versions sell for $13.95; a more elaborate marine model, which also contains a mouth-to-mouth resuscitator, goes...
...dramatic. It's , theatrical. It's warm. It's waterproof. It's just different," said an enthusiastic Boston University coed last week in praise of her cape. For any, all or none of her reasons, cape sales, round the country are still soaring. Both Filene's and Jordan Marsh in Boston report a swirl of business, as do Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, Bonwit Teller and Saks Fifth Avenue, which had a particularly hot run on monks' capes. In Los Angeles, where even the ladies who sell maps to movie stars' homes...
...mess hall, a young, rawboned roustabout drains his coffee cup, zips up his waterproof jacket and stands, listening briefly for the fickle north wind that whips cruelly across the gulf this time of year. Then he sighs: "Well, 1 guess it's time to feed my young'uns." Somehow his words sound like a motto for the offshore oilmen...
THERE were police cars outside the auditorium where Goldwater was to speak to the convention; several bomb threats had been phoned in. Inside, Father Daniel Lyons, a Jesuit, gave a preliminary address on the theme of "Conservative Directions." After an opening joke about waterproof Ted Kennedy watches, he got down to liberalism. "It's an essential doctrine of the Left that human evil is due to social and economic ills...