Word: dodo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like the Dodo Bird...
...railroads, New York Central President Alfred Perlman once explained that for years they had endured the lash of critics who "thought the industry was like the dodo bird-with its head where its tail feathers ought to be." Until recently, the critics seemed to be right. Standpat thinking smothered rail progress for most of the first four decades of the century, while autos, trucks and air travel nibbled away at the railroads' markets. Belatedly realizing that one track that led to greater efficiency was merger, the railroads since 1956 have persuaded the Interstate Commerce Commission to approve 26 mergers...
...heralded innovations are the shaped suit and the return of the double-breasted-but they have yet to prove their drawing power. Says John D. Gray, president of Hart Schaffner & Marx: "Acceptance of the shaped look has been very limited. The double-breasted suit is as dead as the dodo...
Bertha, Bettina & Dodo. It is owned and operated by Alain Bernardin, a successful restaurateur who decided to branch out into the nightclub business and wanted a Wild West décor. Although he had never visited the U.S., he went to see a dozen western films, all of them by Universal Pictures. "They always had saloons in those films, and since they always had the same set, it was always the same saloon," he recalls. "I copied it for mine." But business dragged, so Bernardin decided to enliven it with striptease. Again he haunted the cinema and found...
...rechristens each one in his own high style. His present girls include Neferzouzou, Bertha von Paraboum, Bettina Uranium, Nadia Safari, Victoria Nankin, Natasha von Turmanov, Coral Lazuli and Sofia Palladium. Among the alumnae are Lili Lapudeur, Rapha Temporel and Bernardin's alltime favorite, a Polish-German named Dodo d'Hambourg...