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Fashion's grande dame, Coco Chanel, 85, held her annual showing-and it was mostly variations on her famed tweeds and pleated skirts-all of which still goes with the ladies of fashion.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

With the audience shouting its approval and clapping along, the buskers put on the biggest one-night pitch in their his tory. Partridge himself sang Rosie and his latest single, Breakfast on Pluto. As much of a hit was the grande dame of busking's elder set: a round...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Performers: The Rosie Side of the Street | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

In order to accommodate the 60-odd participants, the French hosts had moved the meeting into the Grande Salle des Fêtes of the old Hotel Majestic on Avenue Kléber, which now serves as Paris' International Conference Center. The Grande Salle is 70 feet long, decorated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A HARSH BEGINNING IN PARIS | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

In the 16th century, Spain built a buffer province near the headwaters of the Rio Grande to shield her Mexican territories from possible French incursion. Transported to a wild, 600,000-acre land grant, Andalusian settlers turned their arid Tierra Amarilla into a grazing empire that exists today as New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Mexico: The Agony of 7/erra Amarilla | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

For more than half a century, the spot in the Louvre's Grande Galerie had the aura of a shrine. And for good reason. There hung Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the Louvre's-and the world's-most famous painting. When Culture Minister Andre Malraux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Final Masquerade | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

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