Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raisins and lemon-are also good therapy for aching muscles. Then it is time to dress for the pleasures of après-ski. Slacks and pants suits are popular, but many girls, tired of pants after wearing them all day skiing, are switching to skirts, some of them mini, more of them of the long, hostess variety. Turtleneck T shirts are In, but they must be made of synthetics, since cotton is very Out, even for skiing. Tom Jones shirts and hip-huggers are In; bell bottoms are Out. Furs, from mink and leopard to lynx and baby seal...
...skirt was hardly a mini, but it certainly was a bit more mod than the numbers Jacqueline Kennedy normally wears. Enshrined in fashion's Hall of Fame since January, Jackie sported the new hemline, three inches above the knee, at lunch in Manhattan with her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill. "It's the shortest we've seen her in," said Women's Wear Daily, whose photographer caught the girls in a gay mood as they emerged from the Lafayette Restaurant. One thing, though, that Jackie hasn't been especially happy about recently: The Pleasure...
...balance of power between the two big parties in the Bundestag. It was they who precipitated the current crisis by quitting Ludwig Erhard's Cabinet over budget problems. Now they were talking separately to the Socialists and to their former CDU partners about the prospect of forming a "mini-coalition...
...boxy Microbus, since the column is nearly vertical. One especially irksome item is a rear-window defroster. France's Renault complains that such a device would be "superfluous," since an outside mirror does the job adequately. An impossibility in many very small cars, such as Britain's Mini-Minor, is a requirement to have the front seat set back far enough so that in a collision passengers' heads will not snap down to the dashboard. One solution: shoulder as well as lap belts, to keep passengers in place. Air pollution control is another small-car problem, because...
Last week's outburst in Conakry (see THE WORLD) was admittedly only a mini-crisis by postwar standards. Nonetheless, it provided a lively climax to Under Secretary of State Nicholas...