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...even with the plumage, the gimlet-eyed audience of buyers and editors was short on applause. Most of them had just flown in from Italy, where they were more charmed. In Rome, designers went black and white with an op twist-in everything from Valentino's sequined, zebra-topped lounging pajamas to Fabiani's chiaroscuro plaid evening coat. In Florence, Emilio Pucci produced print tights under an Empire dress slit to the armpits on each side. And Italians seemed intent on depluming the bird world too, particularly ostriches, who had better hide more than their heads...
...movies. But Dr. Grzimek, who is director of the Frankfurt Zoo and widely respected as a conservationist, makes an excellent guide. His subjects do not just stand around as in most such books. They charge the photographer, get rescued from swamps; a pride of lions claw a stuffed zebra that Grzimek set up just to see what they would do. The text is informal and informative, just as a good guide talk should...
...same time, somewhat alarmingly, teen-age boys are taking to high heels. International Shoe has had a runaway success with its "Beatle Boots," which have 11-in. tapered heels; Melville Shoe Co. (Thorn McAn) has brought out a boot with a 2-in. tapered heel, also offers the teens zebra stripes and wildly colored linings...
Checking services in U.S. banks range from automatic bill paying to zebra-striped checkbooks. But until now the banks have largely ignored the special needs of the 1,000,000 present or potential customers who are blind. Last week Manhattan's Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. produced a solution to one difficult problem of the sightless: how to write a check without aid. The bank showed off a Braille checkwriter that consists of an aluminum plate into which the sightless insert a special check. Guided by cutouts in the device, they can write the necessary data. There...
...leaving his even bigger son Robert, 6 ft. 8 in., to run the London end of things. His changes in El Morocco will not disturb old Moroccans' sense of security-the white rubber palms with plastic banana leaves still loom against the royal blue star-strewn sky, the zebra-striped banquettes still make the locale of every photographed celebrity instantly recognizable...