Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't even have to go deep into the bush around Nairobi to trap her trophies but found them already wrapped, breast-high, around the ladies in the mud huts. To them, the kikoi was only a brightly colored piece of cloth, good enough to wear to market, but nothing a native would get restless about. Stunning, thought Jenny Bell, and bought some, intending to turn them into tablecloths. But back in Manhattan, she realized that the Kenya hutwives had been right all along: the kikois were dashing as dresses. She ran up a few tentative models, found...
Died. Admiral Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, 75, French military hero and Roman Catholic priest, who forsook the cloth to fight with De Gaulle in World War II, later became French High Commissioner to Indo-China, a post in which he so relentlessly pressed the fight against Communist guerrillas, scorning all talk of negotiation in Paris, that he was recalled in 1947, whereupon he quit public life in disgust and returned to his monk's habit; of a heart attack; in a monastery near Brest, France...
...five days aboard the borrowed 83-ft. yacht Sundance, bobbing in the Pacific off the California coast, Barry stubbornly refused to let any controversies die out, and even created new ones. One day, leaning against the yacht's railing, and wearing brilliant orange-red pants, a white terry-cloth shirt, and a day's growth of beard, he welcomed reporters aboard for a press conference...
...Lord Alexander. As far as he is concerned, Anglican Communion already resembles too closely the Roman Catholic Mass; and the measure to permit the use of the alb (a long-sleeved white tunic), the chasuble (a poncholike garment), the amice (a linen neckcloth) and the maniple (a band of cloth worn on the left arm) would strengthen what the London Times called a "drift toward the Roman Catholic form of service...
Changing the Sea. So far, researchers have found 33,000 ways in which fiber glass could replace steel, aluminum, wood or cloth. Fiber glass now goes into ladders and luggage, pipes and Polaris missiles, building sidings and shotguns. Some manufacturers are developing it for dresses, and the Canadians are making fiber glass igloos for north woods sportsmen. Automobile bodies, when runs are limited to 50,000 cars of a specialized model, can be made more economically using fiber glass instead of steel. Fiber glass makers hope eventually to replace steel or nylon cord in tires, and thereby take over...