Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painted his subject for this week's cover in four sittings at the Texas Medical Center's Methodist Hospital in Houston. One sitting was abruptly halted when DeBakey was summoned to a nearby operating room to help revive a patient whose heart had stopped beating. In surgical gown and mask, Koerner also studied and sketched DeBakey while he was performing several operations. For the background, Koerner chose the overhead lamp of an operating room and an oscilloscope that monitors a patient's heart and pulse. "I learn something from every operation," DeBakey says; it was his meditative...
Freedom & Peace. That night, at the state banquet at Augustusburg Castle, resplendent in a jewel-encrusted blue and white gown designed to match the baroque décor, she came out with a political plea, clearly dictated by Harold Wilson, in favor of West Germany's most popular principle. "In the last 20 years," she said, "the problems facing our two peoples have brought us closer together again. It is now our task to defend civilization in freedom and peace together. That is why we wholeheartedly support your natural wish for peaceful reunification...
...side one of the world's two American-born reigning princesses* became Sikkim's Queen. Ex-New Yorker Hope Cooke (Sarah Lawrence '63) became Her Highness Hope Namgyal, Gyalmo (Queen) of Sikkim. She wore a pearl chaplet, a red bhakku over a white silk gown, and high-heeled shoes for the occasion. Her vast hazel eyes downcast, she whispered "Thank you, thank you," as a parade of lamas and top-hatted guests pressed forward to present the royal couple with cards marked with mystic symbols and heaps of white scarves for good luck...
...Washington (circa 1796) to a circa tomorrow Rauschenberg. So who had eyes for Art? For the 260 preview-and-dinner guests, all lovingly culled by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum from Who's Most, the picture to remember was Lady Bird Johnson, wearing a black faille strapless gown for the occasion. It was fastened, as the New York Times was constrained to note, "with a great buckle smack in the middle of her back," and completed by a matching stole forming "a portrait collar." So appropriate! Seasoned critics appraised it as authentic early '64. More yet. The outfit...
...University community remains vague and undefined, though undoubtedly it will be an important one. The one thing which is definite is that the University-oriented individuals and groups will make their contribution as individuals and not as part of a total University effort which might further aggravate town-gown differences. As Sizer puts it, "We're not giving advice on the terms that we have the answers and they...