Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Also known as bagettes and bicycle bags, the minis were first shown with the fall resort-wear collections in Manhattan and Paris. The mini with the most has been Paris-based Kenzo's design. Made of suede, leather or printed cotton, Kenzo's flat half-circle with a snap-down flap has sold millions in copies by Miller, Pappagallo and others. A made-in-Colombia macrame necklace pouch by Kathy McKeany ($5) is expected to be a sellout when it reaches stores across the country this week. More ornate minis include Bagatelle Creations' snakeskin square with...
...waist ($375) and a turtleneck number ($355). A nationwide bestseller is Victor Joris' self-belted gabardine suit with pleated pants ($110); in all, some 600 stores have ordered 38,000 Joris jumps. One of the most popular numbers, though, is the inexpensive Esso suit, a loose overall in cotton emblazoned with Exxon's familiar name...
Wyman readily accepted the challenge of allying himself with Ford policies. He echoed a repeated Ford complaint about the evils of relying too much on Washington. "I want the Federal Government to keep its cotton-pickin' hands out of our business unless there's something we absolutely can't handle," Wyman declared. The pitch did not work. Wyman failed to carry nine of the 14 towns in which Ford campaigned for him. Nor did he win in Manchester, where California's Conservative Ronald Reagan stumped...
...present concerns over racial issues, Fogel's detractors and defenders both say that the final evaluation of the book's worth rests on more esoteric issues, like the accuracy of Fogel's comparison of pre-Civil War Northern agriculture, which was multi-crop, and Southern agriculture, which grew only cotton...
...Algiers, La., less than an hour after Hirt's previous marriage of 33 years ended in divorce. Hirt is almost as famous for his heft (over 250 lbs. at the last weigh-in) as for his high-volume horn. His hits include such brassy tunes as Java, Cotton Candy and Fly Me to the Moon, which was piped into outer space in 1965 to help the Gemini 7 astronauts relax...