Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just been awarded the Eagle badge. But he devoted most of his energy to New Hampshire. He climbed a 5-ft. ladder to shake hands with three girls who were leaning out of a second-story window in Dover, dropped in at a Contoocook beauty parlor to chat with the ladies, and only once during the week did he seem slightly rattled. That came during a visit to Mount Sunapee State Park, when he was shaking hands with skiers and a six-year-old boy protested: "Rockefeller, will you get off my skis...
Marina Oswald, 22, sat at a table in Parchey's Restaurant in Washington. Ten feet away were two vigilant Secret Service agents. Slight and slim at about 5 ft. 2 in. and 98 Ibs., she had had her .hair set in a beauty parlor-something her late husband would not have allowed. She wore touches of makeup-something her husband had frowned upon. She lit a cigarette and smoked it-something he had disapproved...
...hours on each engineering layout by using cameras for reproduction. As a protection against forgers, cameras snap pictures of people who cash checks in supermarkets and banks. Newark's Beauty Industries Inc. uses an instant-picture Polaroid as a sales tool, photographing a beauty parlor's client and then overlaying different hair styles on the photo so that the customer can see how she will look...
CHARADE. This parlor prank can't decide whether to be a farce, a sophisticated comedy, or an out-and-out thriller. But Gary Grant is in top form, Audrey Hepburn is in gowns by Givenchy, and murder most foul is in full color...
Some pieces are downright hilarious, such as Dorothy Parker's description of a torturous afternoon at the beauty parlor in "Life on a Permanent Wave." Occasional significant essays add to Vogue's intellectual stature such as Camus' "The Crisis...