Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state that counts tourism as its No. 1 business, it seemed only good politics when Florida's popular Governor Haydon Burns proposed a $300 million road-widening program last spring. Democrat Burns, 53, a former mayor of Jacksonville whose snappy dress and smooth talk have earned him the nickname "Slick," campaigned all over the state for the issue, acknowledging that his political prestige was at stake. Last month, in the wake of a Tampa Tribune report that the Gov ernor had requested $250,000 from contractors to ballyhoo the road pro gram, Florida's voters rejected the bond...
...that girl prancing on the hood of a Rolls, strutting along a beach on ice skates, fording a stream on a water buffalo, serving tea in a space suit, climbing a tree in a cocktail dress...
Reaction Sets In. Not everyone is that grateful. America's top dress designer, Norman Norell, insists that "fashion photographers have really gotten out of hand. In the old days, Vogue and Harper's had beautiful photographs of beautiful dresses presented the way designers intended. Now the photographers distort a suit or dress beyond recognition. I know one designer who looked through an issue of Vogue 14 times and didn't recognize his own dress. He had to go through the credits on each page to figure out which...
...laments, "He had a rugged drinking problem... Old men can't take that. Young men drink. Yes." Sometimes he talks rather wildly about looking forward to growing old, "Old men can really cut loose. You should see those Old White Russian Aristocrats at any Salvadore Dali opening. Can they dress. WOW!" But it doesn't work. Tom Wolfe is the prisoner of an historical minute, which, if he didn't invent it, owes much of its definition and publication to his good offices. But soon there will great big cosmic TICK-TOCK and Wolfe will be on the wrong...
...Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, the First Lady made a brief tour of Harvard's newest buildings and finally perched on top of Williams James for a bird's eye view of the city's landmarks. Scarcely anyone recognized the lady in a red coat and pink dress surrounded by a bevy of secret service...