Word: chaine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wearing baubles, bangles and basic black, the guests seemed a chain of paper dolls, cut out along dotted lines and attached by tabs to the proper gilt chair. Chums for an instant, they crossed their silken legs as one, juggled cigarettes and sipped champagne. Rivals in fact, the 145 department store executives, buyers and fashion journalists who jammed the salon were on hand for the showing of Norman Norell's fall collection. The last of Manhattan's month-long season, it was also, as nearly always, the best...
Sitting idly aboard an airliner one day in 1956, a Tennessee theater-chain owner named David Flexer was struck by how much the cabin resembled a screening room. Flexer's brainstorm: Why not show movies in flight? He formed a company called Inflight Motion Pictures, Inc., spent five years developing a compact, shock-resistant projector and screen with the help of Trans World Airlines...
...judge in New York City. As trim as a college athlete, Pierce still finds time to teach a law course at New York University; last January he argued a civil rights case before the U.S. Supreme Court. A day after Pierce's election, the W. T. Grant chain also named a Negro as a director: Asa Spaulding, 61, president of the Negro-owned North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. (TIME...
...been assured by Connecticut authorities that because of the state's one year statute of limitations for misdemeanors, he was not exposing himself to further state prosecution, but the Supreme Court ruled that if he had been compelled to testify, he might have furnished "a link in a chain of evidence sufficient to connect him with a more recent crime for which he might still be prosecuted." The court's turnabout served notice on the states that from now on they will be required to honor the stricter federal protection against selfincrimination...
...that the tax cut is largely responsible for the upsurge in their go-now, pay-later installment business. "This means taking my family to Scotland instead of Massachusetts this summer," beamed a Columbia Broadcasting vice president. Compared with the same month of last year, sales during May in leading chain stores and mail-order houses were...