Word: knits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Made from a lightweight knit fabric similar to that used in swimsuits, Pan-T-Boot is actually an extraheavy pair of panty hose with soles and heels attached. It was conceived by Suzanne Garfield, 33, daughter of a California millionaire drugchain owner, after she found that her fabric boots wrinkled and sagged around her ankles while she was dancing. With her brother Gil, 37, she whacked away at a pair of tights and some oversized boots, spliced the two with pins and clips and, after a week of adjustment here and there, sewed them together. The creation was snapped...
...team headed by the energetic consumer advocate has completed a 15-month study of the anatomy of California's land and water resources and political power. The findings are disturbing. According to the report, the nation's most fecund state is virtually controlled by a closely knit power structure that is systematically stripping California's resources for immense profits. The report claims that a mere 25 landowners-24 of them corporations-hold 13% of all private land and that many of these holdings were illegally acquired. The charges are tenuous, since they are based on the shadowy...
...majority views Hanoi's latest offer with sad skepticism, the wariness has begun to extend to the public statements of American officials. Republican National Committee Chairman Robert Dole's recent statement that there were "just" 1,600 men missing in Indochina sent shock waves through the tightly knit family organizations, as did Secretary of State William Rogers' insistence that the U.S. "can't absolutely abandon our national objectives to pay ransom." The deferential briefings from Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird are recalled by some with bitterness. How many P.O.W. families share...
...city today has an estimated 20,000 addicts, most of them black, many of them concentrated along either Mack Avenue or Twelfth Street on opposite sides of the city. At one time, three loosely knit gangs regulated the distribution of Detroit's limited drug trade. But as the number of black users increased, along with the number of street pushers, organization began to break down. The gangs still control the flow of heroin into the city, but once it is cut, it is every man for himself...
Tall (6 ft. 5½ in.) and impeccably tailored in blue pin-stripe suits, Luns has a wry, offbeat sense of humor. During one of the Common Market's recent ministerial bargaining sessions, he shocked his colleagues by doffing his shoes and slipping on bright red knit socks. "Makes me shorter and I can think better," he explained. At last week's Lisbon meeting, he slipped off his shoes, revealing bright green socks. Occasionally he sports suspenders decorated with small gold-plated elephants...