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...that the tomb of Peter had been discovered. Three years later, Professor Margherita Guarducci, who teaches Greek epigraphy and antiquities at the University of Rome, began studying the inscriptions on a red plaster wall inside which the skeletal remains had been found. "As soon as I saw the cloth remnants," says Dr. Guarducci, who is not a professional archaeologist, "I knew that these bones must have been important. The cloth was of rich purple material and was worked with pure gold. I went on studying the inscriptions on the wall and deciphered them. I found the name of Peter, sometimes...
Donald Brooks is another designer who admits that he has "stripped the bikini down to the bare essentials"-gaily colored scraps of cloth in flowered or geometric patterns. Bill Blass keeps on turning out bikinis because he finds that women, for variety's sake, like a whole wardrobe of them. But the models must be updated. "A bikini has to be connected," he says, "to look appealing and provocative this season." Blass's answer is a chain that links bras to bottoms...
...company's painstaking approach to toymaking began in 1880 in the Giengen dressmaking shop of Margarete Steiff, Hans-Otto's great-aunt. Partially paralyzed by polio since childhood, Margarete happened on the idea of fashioning toy elephants from scraps of felt and cloth for use as pincushions. They proved so popular with friends that Margarete soon gave up dressmaking, began turning out other stuffed animals with the help of relatives. When several Steiff-made bears wound up as table decorations at the 1906 White House wedding of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Teddy's daughter, the resulting publicity made...
...Nixon family has grown remarkably glamorous since the days of the Republican cloth coat. Pat, as svelte as she was in 1960 and considerably more chic, generally stays close to her husband rather than striking out on her own. "One spokesman in the family is enough," she says. But in years of campaigning with Dick, she has developed an easy grace with the voters. Daughters Tricia, 22, and Julie, 19, have blossomed into political charmers, paragons of wholesome comeliness in a nonconformist...
...campaign was also plagued by internal dissent. Resurrection City, heavily black, sprouted some white ghettos, including one populated by Appalachian mountain folk and another by hippies who dubbed their enclave "Diggerville" and festooned their shelters with gaily colored cloth and psychedelic banners. There was an angry flare-up over the black monopoly on policymaking. "Black militants have taken over, and nobody else gets a chance to talk," protested Reies Lopez Tijerina, leader of a group of 200 Mexican-Americans quartered at the private Hawthorne School about a mile from the shantytown. He complained that brown, red and white Americans were...