Word: jacket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Castro has the Cuban moralistic streak in spades, showing no apparent affection for money or soft living. He considers himself a Roman Catholic but is also impressed by Patriot José Marti's anticlerical tomes. He has to be cajoled into changing his filthy fatigue jacket. His only luxury is 50? Montecristo cigars...
...Unimpeachably masculine (Croix de guerre with citations), he told the dandies of Paris to wear gloves and keep their cigarette-lighter wicks trimmed as acts of thoughtfulness to their ladies. "We must defend Paris," he said, "against the hatless." With full dress there could be no compromise: a dinner jacket was so informal it was a "masterpiece of vulgarity and ugliness." The live-modern age could not be forgiven because it had "killed dilettantism." Tastefully, Le Figaro said of his death: "Andre de Fouquières leaves Parisian life at the dawn of the epoch of severity. Animator...
...Tinkling Piano in the Next Apartment (Herm Saunders; Warner Bros. LP). "Caution!" says the record jacket. "Play softly, it's cool inside." The menace is not the heat-or lack of it-but the humidity; in a mystifying effort, the record makers have dubbed in sounds of cheetering sea gulls and the tumbling waves of "a mythical Malibu." The Sea-Around-Us effect is unfortunate only because what comes filtering through the combers-in These Foolish Things and I'll Remember April-seems to be a fine and lacily fanciful cocktail piano...
...University of California's famed Radiation Laboratory, later became associate director. In March he moved his wife and three children to Washington and took on his ARPA job, turned out to be that rare combination of thoroughgoing professional and easygoing, low-pressure executive. Once a sports-jacket type, York has changed to conventional suits, but his wife still has to sew identifying labels into his clothing, for he is color blind...
...American corn, sent him by a U.S. seed company. On the nearby boardroom-type table were two bottles of mineral water: one from the North Caucasus, one from the South Caucasus. Khrushchev, wearing two Orders of Lenin medals on the left lapel of his dark suit jacket, waved his visitor to a chair at the table, took another for himself. "What," he asked, "would you like to discuss?" Replied Minnesota's endlessly ebullient, hardheadedly liberal Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "Many things." And for 83-hours last week Nikita Khrushchev and Hubert Humphrey indeed discussed many things...