Word: liz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...while the bride-to-be, looking older than her 18 years in a micro-toga, waggled her side curls in agreement. "I don't believe in marrying young," said the Twig. And there's another little thing, continued Justin: Twiggy says she wants a ring bigger than Liz Taylor's 33.19-carat, $305,000 sparkler-which might take time...
...Havilland private jetliner and a $600,000 yacht and a $305,000 diamond, and you" bank account shows more zeroes than a no-hitter. So what do you buy next? A whirlybird, that's what. The $500,000 French-made Alouette helicopter made a cute little present from Liz Taylor to Hubby Richard Burton. Then they hustled on up to Sotheby's in London, where Dickie knocked down a Picasso for $21,600 and Liz wigwagged the winning $120,000 bid for a nice old Monet. And then...
...decked the Queen out in a modestly mod dress and jacket, Alexandre cropped her royal mane and Roger Vivier prescribed a pair of shoes that made up in sex appeal what they lost in good sense. Out of the imaginary exercise came a composite photo of a rather lovely Liz, but one that her subjects will probably never see, inside or outside Buckingham Palace...
That awareness came through a spontaneous "guilty feeling" when three civil rights workers were murdered in Mississippi in the summer of 1964. Liz "wanted to do something," so she gathered five Wheaton classmates, made weekly trips to Boston's Roxbury neighborhood to tutor Negro children. Liz recruited more student-teachers, created a program that now includes 60 Wheaton girls. She found the work so satisfying that she spent two of her college summers living and working full time in the slums of Hartford...
...Liz would like to help bridge those two worlds as a social worker, has been accepted for graduate study at the Columbia School of Social Work. She admires those of her generation-including both of her two older sisters?who have joined the Peace Corps. But she expresses the consensus of her class in insisting that there is a more urgent need for service in U.S. cities. Even the suburbs need help, she adds wryly: "A lot of white suburban society is sick...