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Nuggets & Emeralds. Kenneth Lane, Manhattan's top man for expensive costume jewelry, likes to drape fake-moonstone-studded chains around waists and necks, even rings ankles with rhinestones sewed onto stockings. Lane believes that his belts ($75 to $300) are just the thing to dress up the popular harem fashion, the formless caftan...
...doctors who had been standing by for 48 hours quickly readied two other patients for kidney transplants. First they removed the diseased kidneys of a 16-year-old Manhattan boy and kept him anesthetized on the operating table, the incision in his groin covered with a plastic drape. At the same time, they gave presurgery sedatives to a 48-year-old New Jersey housewife who had lost both kidneys to nephritis three months ago. At 5 a.m., the brain-disease victim died; surgeons quickly removed his kidneys, rushed one to each of the operating rooms. By 8 o'clock...
Women are also a vital part of the enemy's recruitment program. In a fetching ceremony of farewell to village life, V.C. maidens drape departing youths with flowers. Women are also entrusted with keeping in line those villagers who remain behind. Song-and-dance teams ride the circuit of V.C.-held territory to help in the task, crooning the latest political messages. The enemy has not overlooked the immemorial value of women in espionage. In smaller towns, nearly every market has a sharp-eyed little-old-lady vendor who is not what she seems. In Saigon the seamstresses...
...evening wear, Pucci led off the "nudity at night" look with pink silk-jersey Turkish harem pants that left the legs exposed to the hips. Tiziani had his models don jeweled or plain bras that allowed the one-shoulder evening dresses to drape as they pleased. Even that had to yield to Ognibene-Zendman's show-stealing suit: one quick tug at its hidden waistband controls and the skirt's pleats reverse themselves, flop over from blue to green...
There had been notime yet to provide coffins. U.S. Ambassador George Mc-Murtrie Godley watched two marines drape the Stars and Stripes over the body of Dr. Paul Carlson. Someone had taken a New Testament from Carlson's pocket, to be sent to his wife...