Word: minked
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...file cards listing several things she would like, and the husband dutifully appears to declare how much he can spend-and to make out his card, which his wife later uses as a guide. "Why not?" asked one woman in Seattle, setting down a description of a beige mink pillbox hat. "The year I didn't fill out a card, my husband gave me a sink garbage disposer." The system would have forestalled the contretemps of O'Henry's young husband and wife in his celebrated story of mismatched sacrifice, The Gift of the Magi...
Neckermann warmly acknowledges his debt to Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, and indeed his catalogue could almost serve for Sears. "We do belatedly what the Americans are doing," he says. But he has also been imaginative. This fall Neckermann is offering Scandinavian pastel mink coats for $1,175, much less than the usual price, has already sold "several thousand." Last year Neckermann established his own travel service, and it is already the biggest air-charter-tour outfit in West Germany. He is offering, for instance, 17 days in India for $400 tourist class and $635 for "special maharajah service...
...shuttled almost daily between home-state campaigning and Capitol Hill; others with particularly tough races had not turned up in Washington for weeks; some lived too far away to do anything but clench their teeth and stay with the session day after day. Said Hawaii's Representative Patsy Mink: "That fenced-in feeling makes all of us who want to come back plenty nervous...
...awarded. It was as if all Hollywood had gathered to pay Mrs. Washington solemn tribute. It must have dazzled her beyond description to watch the long ranks of limousines disgorge the great celebrities. There, with Actor George Hamilton, was Lynda Bird Johnson in an orange brocade thing with a mink hem, and a hair and makeup job courtesy of Hollywood's George Masters. And there was Lana Turner in a $2,000 number described as beaded chiffon, and Shelley Winters in a black sheath with organza Quaker collar and a rented diamond necklace-which somehow got misplaced...
...noisy noise annoys an oyster," French students recite as they learn English pronunciation. The jet age is bothering more than oysters. French trial records mention a horse killed by a sonic boom, female mink driven to eating their young, and Burgundy wine soured by the roar of low-flying planes. What the French press blasts as "sonic aggression" has now led a Nice real estate man to an equally loud legal triumph that is sure to give airlines a splitting headache...