Word: figure8
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Halston's midis tell more than most minis did. His sarong-wrap skirts, held together with two buttons, swing apart with the slightest movement, and his figure8 skirt-one section in front, one in the back, with a good deal in between left out-would be certain to leave the Ice Capades cold...
...people ("a milling, surging, disorderly crowd," sniffed the surprised Boston Herald) broke through police lines to rubberneck at the world's newest and biggest (71¼ tons), fanciest and fastest (up to 375 m.p.h.) commercial airliner. When it paused at Hartford, 30,000 gawking sightseers eddied past its figure8 fuselage. At Chicago, crowds jostled for peeks at its spiral staircase and its underbelly cocktail lounge with fuchsia-colored seats. Then it headed for San Francisco, soon dropped down on the International Air Terminal...
Bernarr Macfadden, 62, publisher, being free of organic disease or any defect which would interfere with safe handling of an airplane; and having executed five gentle and three steep figure8 turns, three landings and a spiral from 2,000 ft., last week was awarded a private pilot's license by the Department of Commerce...
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