Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Below the Parthian battleground where Marc Anthony met defeat, Japanese mini-tractors now wade into paddies thick with rice. Along the Caspian seashore, the highways are clogged with slat-sided Mercedes trucks hauling a record cotton crop to market. The beaches bounce with bikinis, and teen-agers in Teheran have joined the Transistor Generation. The ancient, withered men of Yezd are being taught to read. In Qum and Bam, in Dizful and Gowater and 50,000 villages throughout Iran, 15 million peasants have been transformed, almost overnight in history's terms, from feudal serfs into freeholders whose land...
Kicking the Tradition. Under the paternalistic rule of le Pere, as his countrymen call him, youngsters everywhere now flock to new secular schools that have replaced the dreary old Koranic institutions. Young Tunisian women wear mini-djebbas that are the scandal of the mullahs, and bikinis among the scantiest on the Mediterranean. But Bourguiba is kicking more than tradition into the North African dust...
...country fair for children of Government leaders on the White House lawn last week, Lynda showed up, with Chuck, in a mod cow-wrangler rig of mini-culottes-revealing an eye-popping expanse of leg-and a five-gallon hat that showed how far Hamilton's chic influence on her wardrobe had faded...
...office, though, Papadopoulos steadily improved his position. Last month he steered through the Cabinet an edict establishing a "general directorate of government policy" that operates under his personal control and gives him veto power over all laws drafted by the various ministers. In addition, he has created his own mini-Cabinet, which supersedes the work of regular ministries in such diverse fields as press censorship, civil service and sports. He has trimmed the power of his junta associates by relieving Pattakos of command of the politically powerful armored forces training center near Athens and putting...
From the red-brick Glasgow factory of D. & H. Cohen Ltd. come 150,000 colorful kilts annually, which ladies eagerly buy off clothing racks throughout most of the world. In the U.S., the cry is for "knee ticklers," but for Chair man Denis Bonchy Cohen, 51, even mini-kilts are possible. "As long as it's pleated and made to our basic design," says Cohen, "they can have...