Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professor aptly stated during the Dow discussions, "The University is a hyperheaded thing if not a monster." No one can speak or act for it in a political fashion, and this reality is frustrating to direct-action reformists...
...individual expression does not keep Ford aloof from any students. After the Dow protest, for instance, he devoted four days to hearing the opinions of students, junior faculty, and faculty on the pros and cons of punishing the demonstrators before he formulated his own position. In a typical fashion, he maintained an orderly list of the arguments on each side. In the end, he favored the most lenient possible punishment that would also deter a recurrence...
...Emeralds. Kenneth Lane, Manhattan's top man for expensive costume jewelry, likes to drape fake-moonstone-studded chains around waists and necks, even rings ankles with rhinestones sewed onto stockings. Lane believes that his belts ($75 to $300) are just the thing to dress up the popular harem fashion, the formless caftan...
...hopefully, even if the outer layer parts, the under layer of smaller baby chains will provide a veil. Rustproof, the suit can be worn swimming. "Chain on the nude body can be very decent," insists Sant' Angelo, who gives the hippies credit for putting the chain back into fashion. Says the Manhattan designer with approbation: "They took the symbol of bondage and transformed it into a symbol of emancipation...
...Haidar solved that by arranging to be fired in friendly fashion. With $600 in severance pay, he flew to London with a letter of intent from Aramco to use his nonexistent air-charter service. With that credential, he arranged the lease of an aging four-engine York, the transport version of England's Lancaster bomber of World War II. Operating out of a one-room office in Beirut, Abu-Haidar was soon getting charter business not only from Aramco but from other oil companies as well. He leased three additional Yorks, manned them with former R.A.F. flyers who knew...