Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...black cast, leaving Fox with $2,000,000 worth of sets, Barbra Streisand on hand, and no place to go. Fox is now seeking a legal gambit to foreclose on Dolly!, but Merrick is unflapped. "After Pearl, it'll be Liberace," he mused. "In that red dress. Coming down that staircase...
...refs." In St. Louis, Blues Vice President Sid Salomon III says: "We were prepared to wait three years before making any money-but we stand a good chance this first season." In Bloomington, Minn., the North Stars play their home games in a brand-new, 14,400-seat auditorium, dress in a carpeted locker room that is equipped with a sauna bath and pool table. The Los Angeles Kings are drawing 7,600 paving customers per game, and the only expansion club that is experiencing any real financial woe is the Oakland Seals. The Seals discovered the cure for that...
...social-club gatherings. This spring, vacationers aboard Grace Line's Caribbean cruise ships will find a Merrill Lynch lecturer on hand. The firm's representatives work with department stores to give women a combination stock market education and fashion show; one of the gimmicks used is a dress made of material with a stock-certificate pattern. As another example, onto the stage strolls a leggy model wearing one of the latest styles in stockings. Says the fashion commentator: "Aren't they lovely? These are opaque crepes by Hanes called Flower Pow." At which point the Merrill Lynch...
...effect denies prisoner-of-war status to spies. It allows soldiers captured out of uniform to qualify for P.W. privileges if they 1) carried arms "openly" or 2) fought "in accordance with the laws and customs of war." But in Viet Nam, what is a uniform? The Viet Cong dress in the black pajamas of the country peasantry or in ordinary street clothing, like Loan's victim, and wear red armbands or other identifying badges only in combat. And what, in Viet Nam, are the laws and customs...
...some of the tense cities are simply trying to defuse emotions. Many superintendents find that one quick way to cool matters is to offer courses in Negro history or stress Negro cultural contributions in standard courses. In Philadelphia, some Negroes demanded that students be permitted to wear African dress to class; the administrators agreed, and that helped soothe the situation, although only three students actually donned the garb. Philadelphia now pays Negro youngsters and adult Negro leaders to attend suburban retreats, where they sound off their grievances to school officials. At Chicago...