Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quant, 34, who hiked up the first miniskirts, declared: "The miniskirt is here to stay." She says she still thinks so-although nearly half the 80 dresses she showed in London for next fall and winter were either midi or maxi. Quoth Quant: "It's not that the mini is out. It has such freedom of movement that I'll always use it. But why should I get hung up on one particular hemline? I had hoped that by now people understood that we can have the mini, the midi and the maxi...
Corporate profits for the first three months of the year fattened significantly, especially compared with the mini-recession first quarter of 1967. Net earnings were up 7% for General Electric, 10% for Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical, 20% for Du Pont. The increases were big enough to set first-quarter profit records at RCA (up 5%), Bank of America (up 12.8%), Westinghouse Electric (up 26%), Weyerhaeuser (up 30%), IBM (up 36%) and Magnavox...
Liller followed Terence Stamp and mini-mini-skirted Barbara Ferris onto the NBO show, which originates in New York. Before his appearance, Carson kept flubbing the pronounciation of Liller's name...
...franchise and translation requests came in from Europe and Africa, and sales of a sextant they supply to students went up dramatically. The Simonsens are now expanding business to include a "Nautical Book a Month Club," an air-navigation course, and sales of other nautical aids such as a mini-compass and a "Course Converter"-a device that takes the math out of course charting and leaves more time for leisure...
...Dick on the banks of the Thames would be quite an adjustment for anybody. Added to that was the pressure of starting work on her second major film role in Secret Ceremony. So Mia Farrow, 23, had a problem. It got out of hand after Mia, in her mini mini, danced until the wee hours at a Burton party at London's Dorchester Hotel, then turned up absent from the scene next morning. After a couple of days, the film makers dispatched an emissary to a private psychiatric clinic in Middlesex. No Mia, and a clinic spokesman refused...