Word: fashionability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Acquired in piecemeal fashion over the past 500 years, Spain's African empire languished in neglect until after the Spanish Civil War, when the new government began showing interest in its overseas possessions. Aid and advice have been flowing from Madrid ever since, but recently Franco has stepped up both, partially as insurance against possible disorders and partly to help Spain win African allies in its bid to recover Gibraltar from Britain...
...sought-after designer is rapidly becoming Rome's Valentino. At 35 he has an unexcelled roster of customers trooping into his salon at 24 Via Gregoriana, led by Jackie Kennedy, who these days seldom buys from anybody else. More important, he improves with age; each Valentino collection strikes fashion editors as better than the last. When he showed his spring and summer clothes in Rome this winter, he declared them "the best I've ever done" and nobody in attendance would gainsay the king of Rome. Cried Vogue: "He has become the idol of the young...
...author who has never paid his income tax. The I.R.S. has ferreted out his secret, and Morley has been forced to throw himself on the mercy of tax advisers. His chief consultant, Irving Spaatz (Jules Munshin), is a legal weasel of wizardry inventiveness. Munshin plays the role in droll fashion and is astonishingly agile at working his way through a verbal tax maze of inflated gibberish that includes explanations of convertible debentures, spinoffs, and sale-leaseback arrangements...
Died. Walter Millis, 69, military journalist and historian; husband of Fashion Columnist Eugenia Sheppard; ot cancer; in Manhattan. During 30 years on the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, Millis established a reputation as one of the country's most lucid military commentators. His books ranged from The Martial Spirit (1931), which examined the origins of the Spanish-American War, to This Is Pearl! (1947), a study of U.S. unpreparedness against the Japanese attack. Recently, though, his articles turned more to politics than the conduct of arms, criticizing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and voicing opposition to nuclear weapons...
Under time reversal the neutron would reverse the direction of its spin. If the particle had an electric dipole moment--a plus and a minus charge arranged in dumbell fashion--the field created by this charge structure would change when its spin was reversed...