Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the spring's turmoil, some colleges have canceled their commencement ceremonies. Where they are held, speakers are adding jeremiads on ecology, race and war to the normal buoyant rhetoric of "challenge." At Oberlin College, graduates wore street dress, having donated their cap-and-gown fees to a city youth program. David and Julie Eisenhower are receiving their diplomas by mail lest dissenters disrupt their graduations at Amherst and Smith...
Sewing Their Own. Denver's Bride-N-Groom Rental Salon is swamped with orders from women who do not want to spend $200 for a wedding gown. Sales at Chesebrough-Pond's, a producer of moderately priced facial creams and toiletries, increased by 13% in the first three months of 1970. Many women are putting off buying new summer wardrobes and instead are making clothes for themselves. Volume is ahead 80% at Discount Fabrics Inc., a chain in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Just as women are sewing their own clothes, they are also growing their own food...
...Haven, Yale seniors began organizing a "counter-commencement," planning to have nearly 1,000 members of the graduating class wear suits and ties to commencement and donate their $8 cap-and-gown fees to a fund for the benefit of antiwar candidates. A group called Action for Peace collected 60,000 signatures in the New York City area in two days to support a Senate amendment to curtail the Indochina war; the group began mailing petitions to high schools and colleges across the country for more signatures. Williams College students began organizing "Pause for Peace," a national work stoppage...
Teasingly Yours. At intermission, traditional candy butchers did a thriving business in "surprise packages" containing little nasties and taffy at a dollar a throw. Later, at the Gayety, Rose held court in a silver gown, signed men's shirttails with "Teasingly Yours, Rose La Rose" for $10. Bright young girls hawked pasties ($2) and tassels...
...costume race on skis is a yearly feature at the Storlien mountain resort near Stockholm, and an enthusiastic contestant for the fourth straight year was Crown Prince Carl Gustaf, 23. Dressed as a field surgeon in gown and rubber gloves, Sweden's future king made a sprint for the finish line and wound up on his back with two broken skis. Two days later the costumed "surgeon" needed the ministrations of a genuine medical man. After clipping a slalom gate, he wound up the season with a broken left...