Word: customs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Ada Louise Cornstock Notestein, 97, first full-time president of Radcliffe College (1923-43); in New Haven, Conn. During her last year as president, Notestein ended a 64-year custom by persuading Harvard to open its courses to women...
What price privacy? At the moment, $80,000 and up. That is the tag on a custom-made "contemplative environment"-the latest extravaganza offered in the Neiman-Marcus department-store Christmas catalogue. "Very basically, it's enclosure, the womb," declares the environment's design chief, Richard Stonis. While it is not exactly Walden Pond, the plush private world is like a self-contained dollhouse that can be outfitted with film screens to show custom-made movies, a stand-up bar, isometric exercise equipment, a round water bed and anything else the purchaser might desire...
...these custom-made headquarters, Jim Rippe '69, a former History and Literature student, turns out his zany--but certainly not dismissable--structures of fired clay. They are not ceramics, and though they are hollow they can't really be called pottery. Rippe would like to resist calling them anything...
Ever since the end of the second world war, the dizzying pace of technological advance has kept Americans just slightly off balance. The race to be the first one on the block to own this new supercharged custom cruiser or that new space-age color television set has tuckered this country...
Halston, né Roy Halston Frowick, is one of high fashion's best designers -and best business minds. Unheard of 15 years ago, he built a custom and ready-to-wear business that will sell $28 million worth of high-priced fashions this year, including thousands of "ultra suede" dresses that go for $220 apiece...