Word: clad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family is an ancient and illustrious one: Lautrec's armor-clad ancestors went on the Crusades, his rich grandfather, father and uncles, all did their bit toward the greater grandeur of France. They were artists, too, as proved by their sketches of hunting scenes and country life, which are included in the exhibition. Says Count Robert de Toulouse-Lautrec, the painter's cousin and closest survivor: "Perhaps if Henri had not been deformed, he would have become a diplomat or an officer. But he certainly would have painted...
...Green Giant hopped boldly into new products. "There is just so much market for canned peas and corn in this world," says President Lurton Eugene Felton, 63, "and we were so concentrated, we were vulnerable." So diversified has the company's line become that even the scantily clad jolly green giant adorning its products has had to vary his appearance: on frozen food boxes, he wears a scarf...
Punctually at 10 o'clock, Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, clad in befitting banker's grey, marched into the hearing room and, at the urging of newspaper photographers, shook hands and matched smile for smile with Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills. Once the hearing got under way, smiles faded from all faces...
Advertising in newspapers around the country, Lake Mead Rancheros promises 1¼-acre lots for as little as $595 with easy terms ($10 down, $10 a month). Its brochures show bikini-clad cuties splashing in the lake's blue waters and proclaim "livable now! . . . not raw, undeveloped, inaccessible land." But, said Talley, Lake Mead is some 50 miles away. And at the property, "there are absolutely no utilities available. Six miles from the nearest lot and ten to twelve miles from the principal part of the subdivision is a tank-operated machine where one can deposit a quarter...
...Tanny reducing course. He weighs in at 303 lbs., and his stomach is roughly the size and shape of a medicine ball. Yet Koki Naya, known professionally as Taiho (loosely, "Giant Bird"), makes upward of $50,000 a year for practicing his specialty, and when he appears, clad in a loincloth, his long hair bundled in a topknot, he sends shivers of delight through the bobby-sox set. At 22, Taiho is the youngest grand champion in the history of sumo wrestling, one of the world's oldest sports...