Word: bracelets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marty Halyburton waited in Atlanta for her husband Porter, a Navy Lieut. Commander who has been a prisoner since 1965. She was flooded with mail -as were other P.O.W. wives-from people wearing Halyburton's P.O.W. bracelet in a program started in the summer of 1970 by VIVA (Voices In Vital America). "When he left," she said, "I was just a 23-year-old bride, and I followed Porter everywhere." In the past seven years, she has learned to manage for herself-moving three times, buying and selling two cars, raising their daughter Dabney. At week...
Still, the New Jewelry is unmistakably contemporary, possessed of a modern playfulness that transforms familiar objects into something unique and unexpected. Take, for example, a Gucci bracelet (see overleaf) formed from a silver spike in a parody of the iron nails used by carpenters. Or Otis Creative Craft's silver wristlets, hammered from antique forks into dazzling abstract shapes. Rings, too, are subject to the New Jeweler's wit, as with the illusory double ring by Elsa Peretti: worn only on the little finger, it extends across the ring finger, appearing to encircle both. At first glance Noma...
...Milanese model," says Lyon, "but doesn't look so hot on an old bag." Even thieves have not yet become aware of its worth. In a recent robbery of the home of an American writer in Paris, everything was stolen-with the exception of one New Jewelry silver bracelet with a moonstone...
...keep up the spirits of the P.O.W.s, Americans are donning bracelets-some 4,000,000 at last count. Each is a metal band engraved with the name and rank of a serviceman and the date he was taken prisoner or listed as missing in action. The wearer agrees to keep the bracelet on until all 1,783 imprisoned and missing Americans are accounted for and their camps have been inspected by the Red Cross...
...Bracelet wearers come in all shades of opinion on the war. They include Eleanor McGovern, Bob Hope and George Wallace, General William Westmoreland and Princess Grace of Monaco. Many members of Congress and Governors wear the bracelets. President Nixon does not, but his brother Edward has ordered three...