Word: bazaar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first U.S. ambassador ever to visit the Indian protectorate of Sikkim, Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith decided to dress native. Though most good-sized Sikkimese stand somewhere south of his chest, Galbraith (6 ft. 8 in.) surprisingly found a spotted mandarin coat from a bazaar in the capital, Gangtok, that neatly draped his gangling frame. Looking like an unhappy giraffe in his new outfit, Galbraith attended a dinner given by the Maharaja of Sikkim. Later, the younger members of the ambassador's party twisted until 3 a.m. after getting lessons from the Maharaja's teenage granddaughter, Princess...
Modern technology has obliterated the frontiers of disease. Thanks to jet planes, a louse brushed from the sleeve of a beggar in an Oriental bazaar may attach itself to a tourist who will land in San Francisco next day-already infected with typhus...
...began to create a reputation for unorthodoxy. Although fundamentalist in his theology, he was a political liberal who spoke out in the pulpit against Virginia's racial segregation. His orations were notable for their scholarship-and for their shock value. Once he was photographed at a church bazaar sitting backwards on a donkey and wearing a Japanese lantern...
There sat Diana Vreeland, a regal figure in black. For a quarter-century Diana had been fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar. But Diana was eying the procession as associate editor of Harper's rival, Vogue-having switched magazines last month. And of the lithe models doing their stylish slither down the inter-table runway, none so captured Diana's rapt attention as China Machado, 26, an exotic blend of Portugal and Siam, glorious in a cocktail-hour getup that included pants and an overskirt. China (pronounced Chee-nah) was there in two capacities: as a model...
...pointed out, as there were at the end of World War II; but most of them are run on the cheap, and the net result has amounted to air pollution. "In too many communities," said Minow, "to twist the radio dial today is to be shoved through a bazaar, a clamorous casbah of pitchmen and commercials which plead, bleat, pressure, whistle, groan and shout. Too many stations have turned themselves into publicly franchised jukeboxes." And, unfortunately, "radio stations do not fade away, they just multiply." To consider everything from a tightening of regulations over radio commercials to a possible moratorium...