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...their feet, hands, necks, heads, legs and ears, she might have added, combined with anything and everything else that glitters, including gold, sequins, paillettes, mirrors, foil, beads and crystal. From one end of the nation to the other, the bestselling look in women's evening fashions this year is sparkle plenty, and then some. It can be seen in silver and gold lame shoes, hats, bags, evening pajamas, raincoats and even bikinis; it comes in sequined and jewel-encrusted and beaded dresses, and in silver mesh and see-through dresses with dazzling bras to go under them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Season of Sparkle Plenty | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...Foil & Flashlights. Gold and silver pantyleg stockings (at $4 each) are selling so fast stores can't keep them in stock. Paper silver-foil dresses, priced at $7 and $10, are even more popular in small towns than they are in the big cities. Luminescent gigantism in earrings has reached the stage where girls are turning themselves into Yule trees, dangling oversize baubles, including some with flashlight batteries that turn on and off. There is hardly a hostess going who is not somewhere aglow or aglitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Season of Sparkle Plenty | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

Senior Tom Musliner, after a dismal season last year, may be ready to repeat the sophomore performance which placed him second in Ivy League foil standings. A fast and precise fencer, Musliner won the New England intercollegiates last year but did poorly in Ivy competition because of "the psychological disadvantage of a spectacular sophomore year," Marion said. This fall, Musliner placed second in the New England Amateur Open, where two U.S. Olympians competed...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Fencers Face Holy Cross In First Encounter Today | 11/30/1966 | See Source »

...other two foil men are senior Takashi Iwasawa and junior Chuck Lovell, both elevated from last year's second string...

Author: By George M. Flesh, | Title: Fencers Face Holy Cross In First Encounter Today | 11/30/1966 | See Source »

...this collection together, and you've got the core of the 1966 Harvard football team -- a team that will foil the experts this afternoon by tying for the Ivy League championship.BOB FLANAGAN apprenticed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seniors Spark Crimson Football Team To Winning Season that Few Expected | 11/19/1966 | See Source »

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