Word: capris
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those final hours, Jackie and some friends motorboated to the Isle of Capri to shop and stroll through the main square and its sea of cafe tables. Then back to Ravello-and farewell. Crowds lined the streets, from the villa to the town square, to wave addio. But for all her happiness to be home, the melody could only linger on: Don't forget this little town Beautiful, simple and kind...
...prize roles were played by members of the Tactical Patrol Force, who did their burly best to look like women. They shaved their legs, wiggled into tangerine Capri pants, padded themselves with balloons, pulled on curly-lock wigs, prettied up with plum-blossom lipstick, and practiced a seductive swing of their hips...
Members of the upper crust, of course, have always had their country cottages for getting out of town when the weather was hard to take. The Emperor Tiberius, for one. used to beat the Roman heat on the cliffs of Capri, where some of the house guests at his verdant Villa Jovis were said to have disappeared into the sea below. Perhaps the most famed second house of all is the exquisite Petit Trianon, begun by Louis XV for his mistress. Madame de Pompadour, and elaborated by Louis XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette. From the punkah-hung summer bungalows...
Cissy Goforth is 60 years old but she dresses like a teenager in tight, white Capri pants and high heels. She lives in a stupendous villa on the Italian coast. Like the Wife of Bath, she has had a spray of husbands and she boasts that she keeps her splendid body in shape through "plenty of exercise...
...leave-taking from Florida's Eglin Air Force Base. The wives were up to date in Jamaica shorts and Capri pants-but their Air Commando husbands, togged out in green fatigues and ANZAC-style campaign hats, looked like something out of a World War II movie. Some of the men stood with their families alongside a flight ramp; others huddled near a waiting Military Air Transport Service C-118. Then, with the call of the roll, the 53 men went one by one into the big transport. It swung around, taxied to the runway, and took...