Word: mods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Jayne Harries, 16, Britain's runaway of the year and heiress to a London banking fortune; and Gavin Hodge, 23, a mod hairdresser she met at a party last April; on Gibraltar. No stranger to the headlines, Jayne had newsmen and her frantic parents chasing her two weeks ago when she and Gavin eloped to Europe. But the folks finally gave in when they found that the kids were really that way about each other...
...Mod Monk...
...Benedictine monk, I would say that Walter Holmes's "minimedievals" [July 5] look a lot better than our "maximedievals." I also believe that Monsignor Joseph Snee's remark was unjust and that he should examine his own morals and not those of women who wear the latest mod garb...
...house lights go out, a howling mob in the rear charges through the audience. Fans scream. Unshakeable photographers, like the Italian paparazzi, click their cameras. The reason? Berowne (in a mod green and lavender outfit), Longaville (Ted Graber), and Dumaine (Anthony Mainionis) have arrived, with Air India tote-bags slung over their shoulder, intent on making a retreat--just like a trio of Beatles. The King (Charles Siebert), bearded, barefoot, and white-gowned, is their chosen guru, the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, speaking in a foreign accent. The constable Dull (Rex Everhart) is in khaki uniform with a sergeant's chevrons...
...Latin, as was the rest of the Mass. The offertory anthem was the 8th-century refrain, "Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat [Christ triumphs, Christ rules, Christ commands]." Nonetheless, the 350 delegates to the Fourth National Wanderer Forum sang out with a fervor rivaling that of any mod congregation. "That really felt like going to church, didn't it?" asked one rosary-fingering worshiper at the end of Mass. "Just like in the good old days, when we were Catholics...