Big news in fall fashions by Issey Miyake
The Associated Press reports designer Issey Miyake unveiling oversized sleeves and coats for fall. His collection features large sleeve jackets, short lamb wool pieces, thigh-high wrapped boots, and quilted-looking pants in bright color blocks. Miyake notes fabric development and unusual shoe designs with cork soles, adding bold evening dresses with mathematical prints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Hencken
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
Issey Miyake
Paris
Miyake
Laurents novel The Way We Were to Film With Streisand
Hollywood notes report Arthur Laurents authored a novel The Way We Were sold for a film with Barbra Streisand set to star Sydney Pollack directing and Robert Redford possibly as Streisand’s co star. The tale follows a campus radical who marries a WASP football hero and moves to Hollywood amid the 1940s blacklist. Laurents recalls his own blacklist exile and critiques modern Hollywood.
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Hollywood
NEA
Arthur Laurents
Barbra Streisand
Sydney Pollock
Robert Redford
Streisand
Young Communist League
Laurents
Europe
Jane Fonda
Fonda
Fashion notes from Miyake and Barrie collections
Miyake discusses shifting from popular plaids to checks and stripes as pop prints finish, with a background in Givenchy Paris and Geoffrey Beene New York before starting Tokyo designs in 1970. Prices range from 40 to 300 dollars for blouses. Designer Scott Barrie showcases a larger coat variant with extended shoulders, a casual loose look, dolman sleeves, and flaring skirts.
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Hiko Minakawa
Miyake
Giveney
Paris
Geoffrey Beene
New York
Tokyo
Scott Barrie
Scott
Battle over pep pills tests safety and weight loss
Washington computer scans 70 000 punch cards to decide if amphetamines and other anti obesity drugs are safe for weight reduction. FDA uses data from 210 studies with 1 200 patients to assess efficacy and abuse potential, with final policy due after June 1972. Gene Thibideau, blind, delivers a daily paper route in Holbrook for 24 years despite disability.
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Associated Press
Washington Cap
Washington
Barrett Scoville
Food and Drug Administration
Neuropharmacological Drug Products
FDA
Scoville
Chicago Heights
Gene Thibideau
Holbrook
Thibideau
Illinois School For the Visually Handicapped
Jacksonville
Ill
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Shaft
Academy
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Ruth Carter
Richard Carter
Kotch
Topol
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Century City
Mickey Rooney
Burt Bacharach
Steve Lawrence
Eydie Gorme
Hunter
Steve Law Ho
Henny Yeuns
HOPE
ARK. Star
Bureau of Narcotics and
GIBCO
Discount Center
Highway 4
Hope, Arkansas
Speed Star
Teh
Pater
Howard
Pane Fy Nous
Bankamericard
Maxwell House
del Monte
Howard's Discount
Brite
Retail
Pps
Howard’s Discount
Polaroid
Type
Bama
Saag
Howards
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