Word: castillos
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...Collins, 34, after the premiere in Manhattan of Husband Anthony Newley's latest picture, Doctor Dolittle (see CINEMA). She was right, of course: not everyone was at the premiere. But those who were there -plus everyone watching the TV coverage of the event-saw Joan erupting from a Castillo Paris gown that was the dressmaker's equivalent of the Marianas Trench. Far from courting publicity, Joan said, she was just seeking comfort-and "most clothes these days are so rigidly constructed you feel as if you were put together, not dressed...
...tiny South American republic of Ecuador, Vicente Levi Castillo is the hero of the wealthy taxpayers. A political pal of Ecuadorian President Otto Arosemena, Levi Castillo, 35, is a former Deputy in the Constituent Assembly, which has just completed a new constitution for Ecuador. It was in the process of losing his status as Deputy that he was elevated to the position of hero. Today his popular title is "the Dynamite Man of Ecuador...
...Levi Castillo's troubles and his brief triumph began with the Ecuadorian equivalent of the Tonight show, a radio program that reported all the sessions of the Assembly in the Congress building high on a hill overlooking the capital city of Quito. One recent evening the program became particularly diverting when shrewd parliamentary maneuvering by one of the Deputies forced a clerk to start broadcasting the names of all the delinquent taxpayers in Ecuador. The poor Indians and mestizos of the countryside, listening on their transistor radios, were delighted at the embarrassment of so many rich merchants. President Arosemena...
...minutes later, Levi Castillo burst into the Assembly chamber and, as the clerk droned on through the list, laid two sticks of dynamite on his own desk. Then he took out a revolver, which he fired once into the floor to gain attention. Slowly he raised the revolver to hip level, aiming at the dynamite. "Ever since I was a boy," Levi Castillo remembers, "I've had this dream of causing a large crowd to leave a large chamber in a hurry." At last his dream was realized. The Deputies poured out the chamber's four doors like...
...Bermudas." For daytime, Esterel showed shorts worn with knee socks; for evening, Madame Grès let them peek through a floor-length skirt slit to the hip like a half-peeled banana. Crahay at Lanvin blossomed forth with frilly organdy bloomers under flaring, tentlike little-girl dresses, and Castillo even tried an evening tunic with sheer pantaloons. Carrying exposure further, Paco Rabanne whipped up see-through dresses made of ostrich feathers and transparent plastic disks...