Word: clothed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fantail. The Conserver's C.O., Lieut. Commander Fred Hilder, 34, a plump, pipe-smoking Pennsylvanian, has deep respect for the current Soviet captain's pushing ability. Says Hilder: "He's a hell of a big bear of a man, barechested, and wears a white cloth to shade his head from the sun. And he's got a ship that can turn on a dime...
Textiles are also tight. Military demand for textile goods, now more'than $1 billion yearly, has delayed deliveries of fall clothes to shops. Chinos, Dacrons and worsteds are hard to get. Almost all the industry's "duck" cloth is going for tarps and tents. Two weeks ago the Government asked for bids for 1,000,-000 uniforms; the industry submitted bids for only half the total. Many textile men hesitate to compete for Government business, prefer selling to their old, reliable civilian customers, who are less likely to cut back orders without notice and are often willing...
...competition, Britain's Ivor Davies staged a complex, explosive demonstration that involved a picture of Robert Mitchum and a male anatomical model with a heart that bled and realistic genitalia. Japan's Yoko Ono had a fey Zen variant on the dominant theme: she spread out a cloth on which she drew the outlines of people's shadows, then folded it up to take their shadows prisoner...
Playing Cleopatra, Soprano Leontyne Price was so heavily costumed in bolts of sparkling cloth that she looked like a junior-sized pyramid herself; it was a wonder that she eould sing at all, though sing she did, and her burnished voice never sounded better. At the top of their form, too, were Basso Justino Diaz as Antony and Tenor Thomas as Caesar. Composer Barber's setting for Shakespeare's text was notable chiefly for an orchestration built of conflict ing clouds of moody, often eerie thun-derbursts of sound, punctuated with enough jutting exclamations of dissonance to label...
Boll-Weevil Beginning. Dolson inherits a company built on small beginnings. Woolman got hipped on airplanes as a student at the University of Illinois. He learned to fly in a wood and cloth-covered Jenny, worked his way across the Atlantic on a cattle boat in 1910 to watch one of the world's first air shows at Rheims, France. Out of school, he became a plantation manager in the Mississippi Delta, turned naturally enough to airplanes as the best way to dust boll weevils off his cotton. When others sought the service, Woolman forsook cotton growing for crop...