Word: mansions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American; so naturally that led to an Yves St. Laurent Argentine pony-skin jacket to set off a dashing pair of matching boots by Paris' Roger Vivier. Gaucho Rudi wears the getup whenever the mood strikes him, as with Dame Margot Fonteyn and Princess Margaret at a Knightsbridge mansion, where the Princess helped kick off a fund-raising campaign to provide new facilities for the Royal Academy of Dancing...
...that spurs human resistance and reinforces the criminal's cynicism. In this view, the solution is getting criminals to reform themselves in the process of reforming other criminals. This approach has worked wonders in New Jersey with groups of 20 delinquent boys housed at Highfields, the old Lindbergh mansion. After working at daytime jobs, the boys spend evenings listening to a selected boy's woes-and then deflating his rationalizations. Nonviolence is enforced by an adult sitting quietly outside the circle; but things get rough, for no boy leaves Highfields until he has proved to both his peers...
...winner, a protégé of John Bell Williams, who switched his Washington seat for the Governor's mansion, was conservative Charles Griffin, 41, and he carefully avoided the race issue. Avoiding the campaign as well, Griffin stayed home with a case of diplomatic flu while Evers' forces staged a get-out-the-vote campaign that resulted in a record turnout for a special election. Evers picked up 10,000 votes from his ticket-topping pace total in the primary. But Griffin got the rest and swamped Evers...
...prospect of prosperity came in 1962, when Standard Oil Heiress Rebekah Harkness, a longtime ballet buff, invited the company to her 49-room ocean-front mansion in Watch Hill, R.I., to initiate a summer dance workshop. Lady Bountiful they called her, and so it seemed during the next two years when she helped finance the successful Jeffrey tours of the Near East and Russia. As time went on, however, Lady Bountiful began to seem more like Lady Macbeth to Jeffrey. She wanted more say in artistic matters and insisted on changing the company's name to her own. Jeffrey...
...quiet devotion to Senate chores gives him a handy excuse for staying out of Virginia's political struggles at a time when the Organization still controls county governments, the state legislature, and the governor's mansion. Last summer his allies soundly defeated Kellam's brother in a primary race for the State Senate, but he says, "I didn't do anything--I've set off a movement that will keep growing whether I do anything or not." The young lawyers who helped in his 1966 campaign are planning to move into politics for themselves, and "I couldn't stop them...