Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio transmitter that slips easily into the jacket pocket or handbag, transmits nearby voices to a receiver three blocks away...
...step from investigation to action was a quick one. Early in 1961 Higgs was approached by a young Negro wearing a purple shirt, leather jacket, sunglasses, and a determined frown. "You've spoken well of us, Mr. Higgs, but we've all heard enough talk. I plan to enter Ole Miss this year. Help me." The lawyer agreed, and eighteen months later James Meredith walked on to the Oxford campus...
...longer with a pair of white flannels, a blue blazer, and a few white tennis shirts. Nearly everyone now owns at least one sports jacket and usually several. Twice as many sports shirts are made today as business shirts, and Cluett Peabody & Co. has just closed down its necktie division, as have all other major shirt companies...
...manufacturers have also had some reverses. The vest has almost vanished. The dinner jacket has supplanted tails almost completely, and what demand there still is for "white-tie" is largely supplied by the rental houses...
...East River, letting his telephone ring in his ear for hours while he studies birds from his window. Mingus is so obsessed with goblins from the white world that person to person he is as perverse as a roulette wheel; his analyst wrote the notes for his last record jacket. Coltrane is a health addict?doing pushups, scrubbing his teeth, grinding up cabbages...