Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stylish whirl into another world. Ethel's special triumph has been to maintain normalcy. She has simply carried on, as best she could, the kind of existence that Bobby would have pursued had he lived. Countless other widows have had to do as much, most of them with less comfort from friends, family and position. Yet to acknowledge this takes nothing away from the energetic gallantry with which Ethel has managed...
...fund-raising activities have paid off $2,000,000 (including a settlement on an $85,000 bill from the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where Bobby was killed); Democratic Party resources will take care of most of the rest. Though Ethel will never be less than a wealthy woman, the burdens of being sole head of a large family have nicked into her personal fortune as well. "Ethel spends pretty freely," says a friend, "but now she's going to have to watch it." Accordingly, she has quietly disposed of some family stock, sold a few paintings and trimmed...
...went last week as the Montreal Expos and the St. Louis Cardinals played the first major league baseball game outside the U.S. If the bilingual announcer in Montreal's Jarry Park sounded slightly strange to the American players, it was no less so for the Canadian spectators. Before the game the loudspeakers repeatedly boomed in English and French: "If your seat has not been installed, please be patient...
...been replaced by less tightly organized groups that have sprung up spontaneously in different police districts. According to one police captain, victims are usually murderers, armed robbers, dope peddlers or auto thieves. A man is generally marked for death on the basis of his record and the likelihood that he will escape just punishment in the courts. Once condemned, he is picked up, sometimes as he leaves a police station after being released for lack of evidence. Usually he is taken to a remote jail, where he is held under a false name for a week in case his disappearance...
...girdle ($15) and bra-slip ($18) are signed by Emilio Pucci, her stockings, a symphony in mesh Vs, by Valentino. On the outside, looking In, there is Gucci's leather-bound shirtwaist dress, interwoven with an all-over pattern of the letter G-with matching luggage, no less. In scarves, conspicuous consumers can go the whole hog with the full names of Rudi Gernreich ($12), Donald Brooks ($22), or Geoffrey Beene ($28), or compromise-as Chester Weinberg did-with a silk strip spelling the first and more esthetic half of his name ($25). At the extremities, there are sailor...