Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Deflated Balloons. Lamentable as the vandalism was, it made little difference. The following day, demolition crews moved into the evacuated fairgrounds to pick up where the tourists had left off. The balloons above the ten Brass Rail Restaurants were deflated, and the food stands themselves were prepared for the bulldozer. The motorless Fords and Mercurys at the Ford Pavilion were packed away on car trailers and shipped off to Detroit, where the company will add the motors, sell them to employees at cut rates. The talking Lincoln statue from the Illinois Pavilion was carefully crated, sent by moving...
Furriers are even cutting capers with the traditional mink. Bergdorf Goodman's Emeric Partos punches holes in white mink coats, fills them with dark mink. Kaplan, who jazzes up his regular ranch-mink coats with shirt-cuff sleeves and double-breasted brass buttons, features a striking horizontally worked white mink with three wide black-velvet bands, and a $5,000 reversible "gaudy mink" that is gold lamé on one side, natural ranch on the other. Philosophizes Kaplan, who came within a thesis of a Ph.D. in philosophy: "For years, buying a mink was such a serious thing. When...
...Godwin's anti-integration record and his support for the $1.50 poll tax, which Virginia voters must pay three years in advance of each state election. "I'm going to hang the poll tax around Godwin's neck," promises Holton, "and beat it like a brass cymbal all over Virginia...
...National Heroes Cemetery, outside Djakarta, the coffins of the six slain generals were draped with the red-and-white colors of the Indonesian flag. Twenty tanks lined the approach road, and an honor guard in bright berets stood at attention. Antiaircraft guns pointed skyward, evidence that the army top brass still does not trust the air force, which has been behaving ambivalently...
...year higher had not McNamara brought a management revolution to the Pentagon. Coldly weighing every decision on its merits, he has frequently rejected the once sacrosanct proposals of his military chiefs, demanding documented facts to support opinion. Obsolete, political and redundant programs-many of them pet projects of brass and politicians-have virtually been eliminated...