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...high-fashion terminology, means marabou feathers and encrusted chiffon, sumptuous embroidery and lacy swansdown, and involves moonlight only as an adjective for blue and roses only if they bloom on fabrics instead of bushes. Fur and crocheted collars are conspicuous, as are capes: Eleanora Garnett smocks them for daytime, Fontana cuts them in satin and velvet for evening, Faraoni makes sleeves of them for narrow dresses. Romantic, richly worked evening gowns slink to floor length, Gattinoni's narrow satin gowns come with heavily beaded apron fronts, and Top Designer Micol Fontana offers a blue velvet ball gown with gold...
...Emelio Fontana of Brazil, a member of the International Seminar, will play recordings of music from his country at the Recorded Music Hour in Matthews 5, Sunday, 2-5 p.m. Fontana will comment briefly about the program, which will include both classical and folk selections and recordings of percussion instruments unknown in this country...
California's Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy dismisses the movement. "In the past there have been movements of this sort, but they never did the church any good." But Seventh Day Baptist Paul Henry, a lawyer of Fontana, Calif., speaks for many of the "spirit-filled" when he says: "It's only my guess, but I think it may be an outpouring just before the termination of this...
...operation, Trefethen the other half. Despite skepticism from every quarter, the Kaiser shipyards went on to build more vessels than any other shipbuilder during the war. At the same time, the Kaisers also had their first run-in with the steel industry, when they announced plans to build their Fontana steelworks on the West Coast with an RFC loan. Despite the industry's opposition, Kaiser built the largest steel plant west of the Mississippi (in ingot tonnage), paid off the Government loan 20 years ahead of time...
...night, over the nation's great steel centers from Sparrow's Point to Fontana, the belching smoke and cherry glow of the furnaces made dramatic testimony to steel's comeback. The order books were filled for months ahead, and the mills were pouring at near-record rates. The figure last week: 86% of the industry's newly expanded capacity, 2,439,000 actual tons and a volume within hollering distance of the 2,525,000-ton alltime peak set in December 1956. As customers hurried to build up depleted inventories and hedge against the threat...