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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bare the back any more," says Seventh Avenue Designer Chester Weinberg, "I may be jailed." He exaggerates but little: the backs of some of his latest dresses are cut away right down to the coccyx. Weinberg's flirtation with the lower limits of modesty only makes him one of the crowd. Rarely have so many designers been so intent on uncovering so much; and as a result, fashions this summer will be the breeziest and barest in memory...
...fashions are the clinging mat-jersey creations of Nan Herzlinger, 36, who has been designing on Seventh Avenue for just three years. Whether it be a purple-bloomer at-home costume or a short white cocktail dress, she slashes the neck well below the bustline and the back even lower, laces the precarious bodice together by wrapping it with 13 feet of jersey string. The seductive effect is straight out of a seraglio...
...urging of British occupiers, Nordhoff moved into their zone to try to restore auto production and employment in the depressed Wolfsburg area of Lower Saxony. Had the British foreseen how Nordhoff would drive their own cars off the export markets, they might never have given him the job. By last week, when Nordhoff died of a heart attack at 69, Wolfsburg had grown from a hamlet to a bustling city of 85,000 as home base for West Germany's largest industry. With assembly plants from Africa to Australia, the bug was the new Model T, a ubiquitous symbol...
Miss Wilsen's voice (her "instrument" as vocalists in the know might say) is basically as lovely as her appearance, though it can have an unpleasant choked sound in the lower register. Her performance at Holmes unfortunately revealed serious technical problems in handling the music. The Bach solo cantata was the closest to coloratura the Master ever came, and is a tough order for anyone to handle. Wednesday night Bach's elegant roulades were indistinct and slow; the tempo dragged at every soprano entrance. The accompanying trumpet, string quartet, and harpsichord, though. perfectly competent, was unconducted and therefore had major...
...difference between Penn and Harvard develops at the lower singles spots where Harvard lacks experience. Parrot and Oxford are both undefeated and could surprise their opponents. Devereux, Terrell, Bo Jones, and Bruce Wiegand are all battling for the number six position...