Word: dresses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same economic factors that can make planes somewhat less "airworthy" than they might otherwise be, also stand to make them somewhat less "crashworthy." To dress up the cabin, the manufacturers have put in nylon and Dacron seat covers, soundproofing and rugs; the stuff may be pleasing to the passengers' eyes and pay off in ticket sales, but it can generate black, toxic fumes in a fire. To save weight, and make easy changes in the cabin configuration, seats are not moored to the floor as firmly as possible. Stewardess training is sometimes more of a brief charm school than...
...first, alas, remains up in the air. Wilt himself claims to be exactly 7 ft. 1/16 in. tall-but he throws out the figure defiantly, like a size 18 woman who insists on trying on a size ten dress. Back in 1955, when he was a freshman at the University of Kansas, he was reported to be 7 ft. 2 in. The National Basketball Association's 1966 record book gives him an inch less than that. All of this amuses rival players, whose estimates of Chamberlain's true altitude range...
...Come on, be a sport. Nothing will happen to you," Segal promised. So Ethel reluctantly agreed, began making preparations by buying a cheap $4 house dress. But friends, including Vogue Editorial Director Alexander Liberman, objected. Said he: "Ethel, this is for posterity. As a fashionable woman, how can you wear anything but Courreges?" In the end, she settled for a $45 copy of a Courreges dress that she already owned, but her white Courreges boots were for real. Then, with her hair done by Kenneth, she showed up with her husband at Segal's studio for the pour...
...models in sections, but for Ethel he wanted to try just two casts, the first from the neck down. "Take a natural position," Segal urged. Ethel plunked herself down on a secondhand green velvet Victorian couch, one leg tucked under the other. Segal proceeded to swab down her arms, dress, legs and boots with petroleum jelly. Then, carefully dipping squares of cheesecloth in plaster, he began molding them to her body...
Died. John Harlin, 31, a onetime dress designer for Dior and Balmain and an Air Force polar survival expert who became a noted Alpinist and the first American to conquer two of the most dreaded Alps, the Matterhorn and the Eiger, via their treacherous north faces, opened a school in Switzerland specializing in direttissima, an innovation that ignores the traditional zigging and zagging around danger spots for a damn-the-obstacles, straight-up climb to the top; as a result of a 3,000-ft. fall during the first direttissima attempt on the Eiger, successfully completed by the rest...