Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rode through the hastily cleared streets of Saigon last week in his black Mer cedes and pulled to a halt inside the barbed-wire compound that Viet Nam's national television station shares with the U.S. Armed Forces network stu dios. Inside, he settled himself behind a green-cloth-covered table, permitted a makeup man to powder his high forehead, but refused to straighten his loosely knotted tie. "It will look more nat ural," he said. Then the cameras rolled and the President of South Viet Nam delivered his first major policy address to the South Vietnamese people...
...tung pamphlets are still a hot item, and Quotations from Chairman LBJ sold out two weeks before publication. Packed between cloth covers, Charlie's chantings might well provide college campuses with a new pop-cult bestseller...
...Reserve Officers Training Corps is not very visible at Harvard. There were the cheerful letters from Aerospace Studies in the summer before your freshman year, and at registration there was a display with military things on a clean white table cloth, with a tidy-looking officer standing nearby. Later, looking for your Math 21 section in Shannon Hall, you might have wandered along one of the pale green corridors lined with recruiting posters and framed prints of bombers and medals. And trudging up to your room one fall afternoon, you happened to meet the guy across the hall...
After a stint producing movies in Hollywood, Bloomingdale drifted off into other business, including a venture that developed a lint-free wiping cloth. Then he and two colleagues pooled $18,000 to launch the Diners' Club, which started off by enticing 14 Manhattan restaurants to honor its credit cards. The club quickly became a success - and its name a misnomer - as hotels, gas stations, car-rental agencies and a host of other business establishments signed...
...remember that the first one was to cut the cloth and tighten the economic belt, reorganize city departments and bring about greater efficiency; the second--to rebuild, restore, and revitalize investor confidence. Admittedly these have been done. There is more building going on in the City of Boston at this moment than in any city in America--that's by dollar volume in relation to per square yard area and in relation to population served. The third aspect of the program was to endeavor to have the Commonwealth assume its fair share of the responsibility for the City...