Word: jacketing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noble in Purpose. The clash of tastes is sometimes painful on both sides. A Madison Avenue adman, opening the door to one of the Row's austerer shrines, took one look and fled-"I thought maybe I had to be elected." One cutter, gingerly removing a Brooks Brothers jacket from a customer, murmured reproachfully: "Not, I think, one of ours, sir." But despite the awesome atmosphere and the great trousers schism, Americans keep coming to Savile Row for tailoring that is as smooth, in one cutter's words, as "a millpond in a heat wave...
...would be unseemly for the Maximum Leader to admit susceptibility to such unmentionable ailments. When he failed to show up at a rally a month ago, they summed up his ailment as "only a touch of pneumonia in the left lung." That evening Castro put on an army jacket and sat up in bed to reassure a TV audience that his doctors had merely ordered him to rest. A fortnight ago he stood in the rain to address a rally in Cuba's eastern mountains, remarked hoarsely that he still was not well, and vanished again. This time...
...road led first to Bolivia, then in the throes of a historic revolution that dispossessed the rich of land and tin mines. In a filthy brown jacket, stained necktie and scuffed shoes, Che became a member of a group of coffeehouse leftists. He went on to Peru, Ecuador, Panama and finally to Costa Rica, a democratic haven for exiles from all over Latin America. Among them were five or six young Cubans who had been led in an attack on a Santiago barracks by a beardless young rebel named Fidel Castro on July 26, 1953-an anniversary that Fidel Castro...
Patient, comprehending and stoic, looking in his bush jacket as if he had just come in off the veld, John Huston supervised his mustangs with detachment. He probably said as much about himself as about the film when he told the cast: "It is about people who sell their work but not their lives...
...last week an easy winner (nobody else was within 530 miles), Chichester was checked by a psychiatrist, who reported "nothing much in the way of abnormalities." Chichester's only complaints were that he was four days out of beer, three days out of whisky, and his velvet smoking jacket was mildewed. Told that he had broken the British-U.S. Atlantic solo crossing record by 16 days, weary Mapmaker Chichester bussed his wife (who had come over by liner) and embraced a glass of champagne. "Normally," he mused, "you would...