Word: chanel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manganese deposits in north Goa. Goan businessmen were more fearful of India's confiscatory taxes and stifling bureaucracy than they were of the petty restrictions of the Portuguese colonial authorities. Union would also end Goa's virtually duty-free status and the sight of peasant women buying Chanel No. 5 and field hands carrying transistor radios. Goan Christians, who account for 40% of Goa's 700,000 population, wondered about their rights among India's 304 million Hindus...
...latest issue of the magazine International Teamster announces a big push for membership in DRIVE (a lobbying subsidiary of the union), offers an aromatic inducement. New members will receive free "a handsome, goldplated, perfume-filled spray atomizer, with choice of one or two highly desired perfumes, comparable to Chanel...
Died. Carmel Snow, 73, petite, peppery editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar from 1932 to 1957, who helped spread the fame of Dior, Balenciaga and Chanel, won decorations from the French and Italian governments for popularizing their fashion industries; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...sell Hercules Unchained last year, Levine threw an outdoor party at Hollywood's Beverly Hills Hotel, where Chanel No. 5 came spraying from the bushes every 30 seconds and a solid-ice Hercules stood melting in the Southern California heat, with colored electric light bulbs frozen into his muscles. Earlier a 4-lb. Hercules made of chocolate landed on 700 desks ; one newsman carelessly left his in the sun, said that when he retrieved it, it looked like Joe Levine...
...housewife, said the Times, sniffed that Jackie "looks too damn snappy." The Times also went on to lift a story from Women's Wear Daily, which reported that Jackie spends about $30,000 a year for togs at famous Parisian houses, such as Cardin, Grès, Balenciaga, Chanel, Givenchy. She buys avant-garde models, added Women's Wear breathlessly, and most of the big designers keep a Jacqueline Kennedy fashion dummy close by for fittings...