Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without offending anyone," says Sitarist Ravi Shankar with a definite air of passive insistence, "in the United States people are too much used to things being sold, to publicity. Something comes in the air - a yoyo, Tiny Tim, Nehru shirts, transcendentalism - and people go all out for it. When there is something else, they turn their face. It hurts me to see people being so fickle...
California's Unruh, anxious to win over the state's fractious liberals so that he can seek the governorship in 1970 (he has even been seen recently on vacation sporting a Nehru jacket and love beads), talked up a switch to Teddy. McGovern and Connecticut Senator Abe Ribicoff persuaded Daley to delay his anticipated endorsement of Humphrey for a few days to see if the draft-Teddy move could get rolling. Daley needed little persuading; Humphrey is his fourth choice, after Lyndon Johnson, then Bobby Kennedy, and finally Teddy Kennedy...
...touch a drop of alcohol." No kidding, continued Greene, he found the Argentine whisky he was served "interesting but not very good." Er, and politics? "I am a great admirer of Fidel Castro," said Greene, after which Miss Ocampo allowed as how she was "an admirer of Gandhi and Nehru but had not been converted." Last seen, Greene was boarding a riverboat bound for Asuncion, Paraguay, for final research on his book, Travels with My Aunt...
...handlebar mustache because "it looks quite sophisticated on him." At Jersey Standard, well-cultivated sideburns are sprouting at the middle-management level. IBM, long a bastion of conservatism, has relaxed its unwritten requirement that men wear white shirts only, even though it is far from ready for the Nehru jacket...
Predictably, there's no business quite as far out as show business. In Los Angeles, TV Producer Larry Gottlieb wears a goatee and Nehru jacket on the job, while Dot Records' offices abound with love beads and sandals. Insists Dot Promotion Man Pete Garris...