Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lonely & Scared. It started when a U.N. patrol was captured by troops of Albert Kalonji, self-styled "King" of diamond-rich South Kasai province, who had tried to pull a small-scale Tshombe and break away from the central Congolese government. Lawson set out for Kalonji's provincial capital of Bakwanga in an unarmed truck. Something about Lawson's schoolboy French and unmilitary looks charmed the provincial rabble, who released the U.N. patrol...
...engineering honors for a bareback bikini that anybody can make at home with three or four pot holders and a long, thin necktie. For evening wear, Grès grew more conservative: one closely draped jersey dress covered the midriff completely, except for two good-sized diamond-shaped picture windows just south of the rib cage. Jules Crahay of Nina Ricci finally closed the neckline of one dress at the navel. Michel Goma and other designers offered evening-gown backs bare down to the coccyx. Patou loaded down daytime costumes with shoulder bows, capelets, streaming stoles and back skirt panels...
...fled to Glen Ora in the Virginia countryside, where she rode to the hounds on a brown and white horse named Rufus. The hounds found no foxes, managed only to scatter a few deer. Then, turning from riding breeches to a white satin sheath skirt, a black overblouse and diamond earrings, Jackie was hostess at another of the White House parties she has initiated for performers of the fine arts. The guest of honor: famed Composer and occasional Pianist Igor Stravinsky, 79, a native of Russia who has been a U.S. citizen since 1946. The guests, including New York Philharmonic...
...Little Diamond Things. Gloria rarely takes any designer's ideas without insisting on changes. She will have Balenciaga take off a button here and there, change the collar, or even have him run up something out of a skirt from this dress, the neckline from that, the sleeves from another...
...Guinness keeps busy all the time and insists that she is never bored. When she is not giving a dinner party ("always include one person who talks well or laughs") or moving on from yacht to plane to villa to house, she likes to encourage young artists, designs "little diamond things" to be made up for her by Cartier's, helps her husband in the photo darkrooms. Right now, she is writing a play about permissive parents called Why Must Women Have Children? "It will probably be absolutely lousy. The producer I showed my first play to looked...