Word: apricot
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...friends have proposed Lippincott & Marvelous, Hepcat & Strudel, Turnaround & Twinkletoes. Telephone calls are getting more urgent-and more frequent. In a week, I have 100 of them, and everyone in our organization is getting the same treatment. We are not likely to get any more letters addressed to Apricot & Hercules...
Masses & Glasses. The dance in the Radziwills' duplex, seven blocks south at 969 Fifth Avenue, got under way at about 11. A five-piece Lester Lanin group made music at one end of the apricot-moiré dining room. Kennedy Sisters Patricia (Mrs. Peter Lawford) and Jean (Mrs. Stephen E. Smith) were on hand, as was Architect Philip C. Johnson, Broadway Writer Adolph Green, and Marisol, the Venezuelan sculptress. Maurice Chevalier and Sammy Davis Jr. dropped in after their shows to do some turns...
...others inside Red China. The terrorists have blown up a blockhouse, a dynamite magazine, a bank, a stretch of railway near the borders of Hong Kong and Macao. An attempt was also made to destroy a Macao-Canton ferryboat, but it was foiled when crewmen discovered a tin labeled "Apricot Kernel Cakes with Meat Filling" behind a men's room mirror. It was a TNT bomb, and the passenger suspected of planting it was executed two weeks...
...striking distance of the kneecap. Other touches: almost every designer stuck ruffles on his models, snapped wide belts around everything-even evening dresses (Balmain, who dresses Thailand's Queen Sirikit, belted a wedding gown). Apart from sex, the only other area of general agreement in Paris was color. Apricot was very big, followed by orange, yellow and the so-called sherbet colors...
Jackie Kennedy refuses to be falsely humble. She wore her apricot dress and coat of silk and linen to speak to farmers in a Venezuelan barnyard. She declines to honor all the petty requests that pour into the White House, ignores most of the President's political rallies, turns down invitations from women's groups who are constantly nagging her for an appearance. She water-skis, rides, plays golf, and yet remains an attentive mother to her children...