Word: chic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LEEWARDS & WINDWARDS. South of the Virgins, where the mounting air fare begins to screen out the junior executives, are the Leeward and Windward Islands. Some of these the chic international jet-setters are currently making "In" by their presence-until the inevitable turning point when the un-chic join them in sufficient numbers to drive them somewhere else, and the word again goes round that "Nobody goes there any more, my dear." One island so In that almost no body knows about it is Barbuda, an 18th century slave-breeding ground 15 miles long by about five wide, with...
Looking Britishly baggy but craggily handsome, the gloomy prophet of impending automation, Novelist Aldous Huxley, 68, bravely entered the chic new world of fashion modeling. He consented to pose for Harper's Bazaar with a woolen-suited mannequin at his side. "It was no trouble at all to get him," said a Harper's editor. "A man that age enjoys having a pretty girl...
...shows have often kept so many people at home, he claims, that "you could throw a bomb in here and injure no one but me and the waiters." Modern, unwashed actors prefer hamburger joints to glossy joints like Romanoff's. (And the washed, if in search of chic, pop off to Paris or Rome instead.) But mainly. Prince Mike complains of the Internal Revenue Service, whose new attitude toward expense accounts has already been reflected, he thinks, in empty tables at the royal beanery. "Democracy is synonymous with mediocrity,'' he snaps. "Our little boys in Washington...
...Scotch is the chic drink. Françoise Sagan's heroes and heroines would not be caught dead or in bed drinking cognac. When they ask for their Scotch by brand, most Frenchmen specify Ballanteen, Egg et Egg or Black et Huit. But mostly it's just "Donnez-moi un baby"-half a shot of Scotch...
...Colombey. De Gaulle is still the despair of his security staff. His personal bodyguard consists of only two "gorillas," whose shoulders seem to slope down from their ears. But dark blue police vans are positioned on side streets around the Elysée Palace, and apartments above the chic shops along the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore facing the palace are periodically searched. When De Gaulle is at Colombey, up to 100 gendarmes are sometimes disguised as farm hands and posted around the village. At the rambling estate in Colombey, De Gaulle gets a measure of the family life...