Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most marriages are ratified at a glowing religious ceremony, complete with flowers, white bridal gown, and organ chords from Lohengrin; most divorces are carried out in the dry, drab ritual of a civil court.But unlike Catholics and Protestants, Orthodox Jews have their own formal religious ceremony to sunder a marriage.Performing this seldom seen rite is the job of Manhattan's Beth Din (meaning court of justice), which last week completed its first full year of operation as the nation's most unusual divorce tribunal...
...Kennedy family. Few diplomats have scored more triumphs than Jacqueline Kennedy in her year as the nation's First Lady. She has charmed Britain's Macmillan, France's De Gaulle, Germany's Adenauer and, for that matter, Khrushchev himself (said Khrushchev of Jackie's gown: "It's beautiful!"). "Jackie wants to be as great a First Lady in her own right as Jack wants to be a great President," says a friend. Toward that end, Jackie has worked hard and effectively. She has done over the White House with unexceptionable taste. She has introduced...
After being sworn in for the new team, Mayor Crane issued a statement thanking the Council "for the honor of being elected to the third term." He cited urban renewal, traffic, and town and gown relations as some of the main problems facing the city...
...General Lucius Clay, got away from it all at the German premiere of My Fair Lady, where he seized the opportunity for an intermission tete-a-tete with velvet-clad Ingrid Bergman, whose impresario husband, Lars Schmidt, was the show's producer. Topic of discussion between Ingrid (whose gown Mrs. Clay described as "a Grecian toga cut") and Clay: "only the show," which left German critics digging for superlatives last lavished on the works of Goethe...
Warmed by a docile sun, pensive in cap and gown, Kennedy rose to speak before 40,000 students and townspeople in the University of North Carolina's football stadium at Chapel Hill. He was there to get an honorary doctor of laws degree; at his side was the university's President William C. Friday; Kennedy's speech-something about Berlin-lay before him. The President put it unobtrusively aside, and then for a quarter of an hour mulled aloud from a few notes on "how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal...