Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vehicle trial run organized by the British embassy brought some 70 British subjects and a few Americans safely out of Lebanon. It also carried the flag-draped aluminum coffins of Meloy and Waring. They had been seen off by a U.S. embassy Marine Honor Guard−in dress blues−and British embassy officials. Though the British column, at first with P.L.O., then Syrian troop escort, was briefly caught in crossfire, it reached Damascus safely...
...flag-draped bridges as some 20 bands filled the air with rousing marches, folk songs and bagpipe tunes. Lining the route were enthusiastic, cheering crowds and honor guards from more than 60 military, civic and private organizations. The long gondolalike Royal Barge, manned by 18 oarsmen in blue Navy dress, took the couple across the Strommen to a lavish luncheon for 300 relatives, friends and official guests at the 680-room Kungliga Slottet (Royal Palace). Afterward, the King and his new Queen headed for two weeks in seclusion to begin their honeymoon. (To newsmen earlier in the week, Carl Gustaf...
Chris is not dressed by British Designer Ted Tinling, but she is one of the few top players he has not worked with. Tinling, 66, who was once a couturier in Paris, was present at the creation: it was he who designed Gussy's fancy pants. Now when he surveys the results of the revolution he began, he is not altogether happy. He coolly divides women tennis players into four categories. In Class A, of course, are the stars. He wishes he designed for Evert, but notes, "Anybody can dress a sugarplum fairy. The challenge is Margaret Court...
Elite Uniform. In Class B are socialite matrons who want high fashion. "It all goes back to a motto we learned in Paris," muses Tinling: "There is no such thing as a fault, Madame, simply a characteristic." Class C, it seems, are "the club players, millions of them. They dress all wrong-skirts too short and pants too tight." Like most elitists, Tinling prefers the proletariat, "the public-park wives," whom he puts in Class D. "They buy out of a catalogue. The clothes are simple and direct...
...going down. A woman announces that she was so high after yesterday's session that she felt no need for food. A man says that on the way home, Seventh Avenue smelled of clover. A hefty housewife, who is wearing a heavy sweater over a wool dress, asks if the air conditioners could be turned off. Ron says "the temperature will be what it will be," but she is allowed to fetch her coat...