Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restless Middle East, death alone is the one swift, sure way to bring change. Disaster struck there this week in classic fashion: an army coup, mobs in the streets, hired assassins, overthrow of the legitimate government. Death and revolution struck on a Monday morning in Iraq. Down went the pro-Western government of Nuri asSaid, and of his young British-educated monarch, King Feisal. The military junta that seized control of Baghdad proclaimed Iraq now a republic, and got off an exultant message of comradeship to Egypt's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...week. The men wear shorts and rope sandals; the women, with or without Bardot's dimensions, wear floppy white hats, brightly colored loose shirts, and pastel trousers so tight that they look as though they had been stuck on. Their feet are bare and bronzed. The czarina of fashion is a waterfront couturiere named Madame Vachon who employs a whole army of peasant girls to sew and cut and iron the simple summer uniforms of the chic. Like many another Tropezien, Madame Vachon has grown very rich, for in Saint-Tropez no one is seen wearing the same shirt...
...still worried about the McCarthy era and the witch-hunts. Its prose and poetry are stranded between a sense of persecution and the cocktail party undergraduate skepticism which rules out being Beat or anything else with a more definitive label than lazy. America-baiting went out of intellectual fashion along with Johnny Ray, and college sophomores usually discover that if this country's not much better than most others, it's certainly no worse. Monocle hasn't made that discovery; like a little boy stealing nickles from the collection plate, it's still getting its adrenalin from being sacrilegious--long...
...every aluminum engine required either a ferrous liner or a chromium coating for cylinder bores; both were expensive to make and troublesome to process. G.M. believes it has solved the problem by finding a wear-resistant aluminum alloy that can be cast in the same fashion as iron...
Born. To Dovima (real name: Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba), 30, lissome (5 ft. 8 in., 115 Ibs.) Manhattan high-fashion model ($75 an hour), and Immigration Department Official Alan Murray, 31: their first child, a girl; in Manhattan. Name: Alison. Weight...