Word: fashioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rights in voting, schools, or Jim Crow?") Fellow Presidential Hopeful Jack Kennedy offered another version of last session's Kennedy-Ives labor bill before the Administration could get its own to Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, House Democratic leaders, with no fanfare but equal determination, settled down in typical conservative fashion to shape the course of government...
...girls kept at it doggedly, returned to Europe in 1957 to learn more. Slowly, they began to win events in minor meets. Penny got a job as an interpreter with an Austrian ski manufacturer; Betsy became a fashion model for a German sportswear shop. Penny, a husky, 140-lb. blonde, excels in the downhill; Betsy, whose brown hair is streaked with silver strands to accord with the current vogue for fashion models, is smaller and more nimble, does best in the slalom. They have modeled themselves on the style of Austrian men ("Only the boys have the drive and aggressiveness...
...where at sunset maidens splash naked in Roman-style baths beneath Sukarno's windows. With food and music furnished by Sukarno, champagne and slivovitz brought in off Tito's ocean-going yacht Caleb (Seagull), the two Presidents and their wives rang in the New Year in memorable fashion. Dancers trampled the palace lawn with polkas and Partisan Kolo. At midnight Tito and Sukarno embraced and kissed. At dawn the revelers were dancing in their shirtsleeves. A rainstorm broke; they moved inside. Not until 7 a.m. did the party break...
Premiere of an ambitious, if not downright cluttered, series of seminars exploring, in Socratic fashion, the fundamental principles and assumptions of the Western world; each week there will be 48 thinkers on hand, or about 40 more than Socrates was able to handle at a time...
Lady L., by Romain Gary. A slim blade of a novel, light and flashing, which slips easily in and out of the worlds of Edwardian fashion, Paris slums and political anarchism, slicing surely at the solemn pretensions of those who love humanity more than they love their fellow...