Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year Ohrbach's was especially enamored of Yves St. Laurent's No. 82, a black gabardine suit that shows the current new softer lines, with a short, gently flared skirt, and a jacket that features a clerical collar and a row of gold buttons. The model wore an accompanying stole thrown back over one shoulder, and a black velvet beret. St. Laurent charged Ohrbach's $1,800-perhaps twice what a single noncommercial customer would pay for one of the dozen or so other models of the same suit made by the designer. At Dior, Ohrbach...
...Worst Time. A shutdown could hardly hit the industry at a worse time. Because assembly lines stopped relatively early for model changeovers this year, inventories of 1967 models are down to a scant 41-day supply-which means that some dealers are already short of cars. Production of 1968 models, for which the automakers have high sales hopes, went into full swing only last week. In St. Louis to unveil...
...also the first model to have Ford's "energy-absorbing" front end, which, with a specially designed 18-in. section in the car's frame, is supposed to collapse, accordion-style, in a head-on collision, thus soften crash impact...
...with few new worlds to conquer, Henry Kaiser turned over his companies to Son Edgar (another son, Henry Jr., died in 1961) and moved to Hawaii. Even in retirement he was more active than other men in their prime. He conceived Hawaii Kai, a $350 million model community on 6,000 acres that will eventually house 50,000 people. Before long, the then septuagenarian had cleared land and built the 1,100-room Hawaiian Village Hotel (which he sold to Conrad Hilton for $21.5 million), started a cement company, bought a radio and TV station, and established a Jeep-rental...
...office and eventually from branches in other major cities, it will back its British clients with market research, advertising and promotion. Next month Lion & Unicorn will bring a couple of nubile nobles, Lady Mary Gaye Georgiana Curzon and her sister, Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Anne Curzon,* to New York to model mod clothes. The com pany hopes to sell $15 million worth of goods during its first 15 months, earning commissions...