Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...markets. Convertible and hardtop versions of the S-800, a small, four-cylinder, four-carburetor model that resembles the Austin-Healey Sprite, will sell for slightly less than $2,000 in the U.S. The pint-sized Honda 500 will cost about $1,100, will compare with British Motors' Mini Minor and the Fiat 600. Both the 5800 and the 500 derive from a four-cylinder Honda Formula II racer that won all ten of its Grand Prix starts this year...
Died. Gus Edson, 65, cartoonist, who in 1935 switched from sports on the New York Daily News to comic strips when he took over The Gumps after the death of its creator, Sidney Smith, for the next 25 years kept the noisy ("Oh, Mini"), argumentative family (Andy, Min, Uncle Bim and Momma De Stross) yelling happily at one another until its popularity waned and he turned exclusively to Dondi, the sentimental story of an Italian waif in the U.S., currently in 138 newspapers; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...
...Tanya Lopert, girl starlet and daughter of a United Artists vice president, had to be content with something less spectacular but considerably more ladylike. With Daddy in tow, Tanya made her big entrance at a party at the Palazzo Ca' Rezzonico, dressed in a spangled magenta mini-gown slit to the thigh...
Caught in a jet-set liftoff, skirts have been rising from a ladylike "just shadows the knee" to the mid-thigh of the London mini. Followers of the high-rise trend have found themselves caught in a profusion of embarrassment just in the simple act of sitting down. "Thighs?" sighed one London designer. "Every girl I know is dieting to get into short skirts." Where was the frantic escalation to be stopped? As the grands couturiers last week paraded next fall's fashion, they provided the answer: in Paris...
...cost scooter that in the 1950s helped put every paisano in the driver's seat, but which were only a small part of his $500 million empire producing steel tubing, heavy machinery, steel furnaces (including a recently completed $400 million steel mill in Venezuela) and English Austins and Mini-Minors with zippy Latin bodies; of a heart attack; in Milan...