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...Sept. 23 -Frank Zappa's wife gives birth to another child, which they name Nylon Zappa...
...just starting to be profitable, Du Pont lags far behind European chemical giants and is meeting savage price competition from aggressive Japanese companies. Agile competitors, who have benefited from Du Pont research, make it questionable whether the company will ever again have a proprietary invention so spectacularly successful as nylon, which Du Pont had to itself for nearly 15 years. Competition also produced overcapacity and falling prices for textile fibers, plastics and organic chemicals. By Du Pont's own price index, the level fell from 100 in 1957-59 to an estimated...
...Basement General Merchandise Manager James Gormley says, "they end up spending more money than they would normally." Each day throngs of shoppers-as many as 200,000 at Christmas time-surge through the store's three dungeon-like underground levels, fighting for everything from name-brand nylon panties at 39? a pair to a Russian sable worth $8,500 and a positive steal at $3,000. As the outlet for surplus stock from such fashionable stores as Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and I. Magnin, the basement has become the happy hunting ground for Beacon Hill dowagers and Charlestown...
...persons dressed in gold bedspreads, long underwear, and nylon stockings passed out Christmas-Krishna carrot sticks and chanted "We wish you a Hare Krishna and a Happy New Year." Members of "The Salvation Navy Band" supplemented the Krishna medley...
...front is pulled loosely up and back into a topknot. Underneath, along with the remainder of the hair, can generally be found several ounces of wool twine or a nylon mesh cushion, the better to swell the structure to second-head proportions. Hanging down at strategic intervals (at the temples, around the ears, and down the back of the neck), are separate, curling tendrils of hair. The whole thing may look like the work of a bird who flunked nest building. Yet at $17.50 per neglect-job at Kenneth's Manhattan salon, the elegant lady can-and must-look...