Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fabric of history is rent with unanswered questions and unresolved doubts, and for many men those tears and slashes prove far more intriguing than the whole factual cloth. From the disappearance of the Holy Grail to the attack on Pearl Harbor, many of history's great events have been marked by suspicions of connivance, corruption and conspiracy. Today, 34 months after the tragic event, a new web of doubt is being publicly spun around the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas...
Hauled before Moscow City Court, reported the trade-union newspaper Trud, were nine persons charged with knitting together a nationwide operation that lifted cloth in wholesale lots from textile factories, sold garments fashioned from it at black-market prices. Behind it all, charged Trud, was one M. Rabinovich, 43, a textile engineer who had launched his nefarious enterprise 20 years ago by stealing from a Moscow mill employing invalid war veterans. Later, he expanded his operations to whole chains of factories and retail outlets where he had contacts. "Moscow soon became too small for Rabinovich," sneered Trud. He "extended...
BURT LANCASTER appeared one evening in a terry-cloth robe at a back door in a well-trimmed New York suburban neighborhood. "Are you the lady of the house?" he asked. "May I have a vodka martini?" He got it. See SHOW BUSINESS...
...Lancaster's swimathon. The homeowners went along for fees of about $500 a day and assurance that the film crews would use mobile toilet facilities and not go traipsing into people's houses. A single exception was the star, who one evening appeared in a terry-cloth robe at one back door and asked: "Are you the lady of the house? I'm Burt Lancaster. May I have a vodka martini...
...CLOTHES. Around 1000 B.C. the nomads of Central Asia found that their simple cloth or hide wraps were uncomfortable on horseback; so they invented trousers. Trousers were so closely associated with barbarians that when some Romans began sporting them an imperial edict was issued against their use. As late as 1814 the Duke of Wellington was refused admission to his club because he wore trousers. Cuffs on trousers first appeared in New York City near the end of the 19th century after an Englishman on his way to a fashionable wedding was caught in a downpour and turned...