Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...browns and grays in favor of the baby pinks, brilliant yellows and other bright pastels usually reserved for spring. To top off the show, Smith's 19-year-old sister Doris diddy-bopped out in a 1972 bridal outfit: a strapless white Lurex gown worn with a white fake-fur jacket and a gauzy veil with a feather stuck in the side...
...popular sellers have been double knits, which are strong and stretchable, and bonded fabrics, which have a backing sealed to the cloth, making lining unnecessary. Bonding also makes laces and other ravelly materials as easy to sew as calico. Besides an ever-expanding market of synthetics, textilers now offer fake furs, machine-washable woolens, washable crushproof velvet and even washable suede. Some materials can set the connoisseur back more than $100 a yard, but she is apt to find them a bargain. Says Manhattan Socialite Belkis Ertegun: "I have a hunger for clothes. I want something new every minute...
...less captured Bill Morrison, and assigned me to guard him. He is a model prisoner, primarily because he is barely aware he has done anything wrong. In hushed tones, and between calls to the corporation's lawyer. Roger tells us that Morrison may have been involved in selling fake backstage passes. Whether we could have him arrested or not was not clear, so it is finally decided that I guard him until we can further identify him, which means waiting for Peter Rudge...
Each year bad-check passers fleece U.S. businesses of an estimated $4 billion-far more than bank robbers get with guns. Using stolen or bogus drivers' licenses and other faked identification, "paper hangers" have found merchants-who are naturally anxious to ring up sales and cannot easily verify such fakes-especially easy targets. And even if checkbook bilkers are later caught, convictions are hard to get because many suspects cannot be identified to the satisfaction of courts. Now two new devices on the market are enabling stores to record identification that even the cleverest forger cannot fake: his thumbprint...
...ecology speeches and civil liberties record do him credit. He has the good name of his father, redoubtable former Governor John J. McKay (Melvyn Douglas). Furthermore, a visit to Republican Incumbent Crocker Jarmon's campaign picnic convinces him that Jarmon (Don Porter) is an affable fake...