Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greying, distinguished Norman Norell, 66, is today the dean of U.S. designers. As an apprentice, he designed costumes for Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. Today his Manhattan collections still retain much of the sleek, stark, flamboyant yet functional modernity that was characteristic of the late 1920s and early 1930s-and remain equally timely in the 1960s. Norell pioneered culottes and fitted jackets with pleated skirts several seasons ago, showed the now universal pants suit in 1964. His most famous dress is undoubtedly the basic, columnar, $3,000 sequined full-length sheath that he has been making, with minor variations, since...
...financial editor of the Dallas Morning News in the 1920s and 1930s-and later-I watched Merrill Lynch grow from a few docile dogies and mavericks in the small corral and then saw them emerge as the thundering herd. They are today a great aggregation and well deserve the spread TIME gave them...
Yearning to subject his country to the same hardships that he had endured on the Long March, Mao chose as the weapon for his campaign a new organization whose name derived from the civil war of the 1930s: the Red Guards. Originally, they were peasants who served Mao's Red army as porters and scouts. Today's Red Guards are high school and university students, often clad in military-type khaki trousers and belted jackets, and always wearing a red arm band. They seemed to be under the command of Mao's longtime ghostwriter, Chen Pota...
Never a Cipher. In the halcyon 1930s, Geoffrey Parsons was the city's most influential editorial writer; Stanley Woodward ran the best sports page in the business. The city editor was that celebrated Texan Stanley Walker, whom many consider the alltime champion in that trade. Walker issued just two ukases: "Do not betray a confidence, and do not knife a comrade." But he could make some pointed suggestions. A correspondent whose copy lacked enough punctuation once received a full typed page of commas. And in his book, City Editor, Walker wrote, "Pick adjectives as you would pick a diamond...
...Inescapable Fact. The open-housing provision is one of the most controversial in years, not only because it affects deeply ingrained feelings for the rights of private property, but because it also promises to affect the North far more profoundly than any previous civil rights measure. Since the 1930s, more than 3,000,000 Southern Negroes have flowed into the major cities of the North and West in a tide that has created ghettos from New York to Los Angeles and prompted white families to move to the suburbs. Though the objections of property owners to the open-housing provision...